New issue of the journal Subjectivity on the work of autonomist media
theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. The issue is freely available for the
rest of March. cheers, stevphen
Subjectivity Volume 5 Issue 1 (April 2012)
Special Issue: Collective Becomings
Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis & Joanna Figiel
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sub/journal/v5/n1/index.html
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is a contemporary writer, autonomist theorist and
media activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), and was
part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first pirate radio station in
Italy (1976-1978). His work analyzes the role of media and information
technology in post-industrial capitalism, in particular drawing from
schizoanalysis and aesthetics to investigate processes of
subjectification within precarious labor.
This issue of Subjectivity, which is the first major engagement with
Bifo’s work in English, focuses on the themes of collective becomings,
whether manifest in the eruption of new political movements, within the
workings of the economy, or in the artistic sphere. It is not just a
collection of essays that take Bifo’s ideas as their starting point, but
rather a collection of essays that all start from the conjuncture of
Bifo’s ideas, the issues and conditions raised by them, with forms of
collective becomings in the present.
The purpose then is not to consider Bifo’s work in isolation, but rather
to develop it as a tool, one that is explored through continued usage
and application. This conjunctive approach is the most productive and
valuable feature of Bifo’s writing, and autonomist analysis more
generally: its ability to act as a kind of crossroads for bringing
together different forms of political analysis and social theory, to act
as a bridge between them.
Issue Contents:
Introduction
Stevphen Shukaitis & Joanna Figiel
Angels of love in the unhappiness factory
Dave Eden
Labor of recombination
Abe Walker
Creative labor in Shanghai: Questions on politics, composition and
ambivalence
Anja Kanngieser
Cinematic and aesthetic cartographies of subjective mutation
Michael Goddard
The Novel Form in Italian Postmodernity: Genna’s Day of Judgment
Giuseppina Mecchia
Reassessing recomposition: 40 years after the publication of Anti-Oedipus
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
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