Mediakcije Collection, book no. 12
Original title: Il lavoro dell’anima
Translate: Gašper Malej
© Maska, Ljubljana, 2013
This book was published in Slovenian.
Franco Berardi – Bifo: The Soul at Work
In this, his newest book, Franco “Bifo” Berardi–key member of the Italian Autonomist movement and a close associate of Félix Guattari–addresses these new forms of estrangement. In the philosophical landscape of the 1960s and 1970s, the Hegelian concept of alienation was used to define the harnessing of subjectivity. The estrangement of workers from their labor, the feeling of alienation they experienced, and their refusal to submit to it became the bases for a human community that remained autonomous from capital.
But today a new condition of alienation has taken root in which workers commonly and voluntarily work overtime, the population is tethered to cell phones and Blackberries, debt has become a postmodern form of slavery, and antidepressants are commonly used to meet the unending pressure of production. As a result, the conditions for community have run aground and new philosophical categories are needed. The Soul at Work is a clarion call for a new collective effort to reclaim happiness.
Mediakcije Collection, book no. 12
Original title: Il lavoro dell’anima
Translate: Gašper Malej
© Maska, Ljubljana, 2013
This book was published in Slovenian.
Contents
TELO IN DUŠA
DELO IN ALIENACIJA V ŠESTDESETIH LETIH
DUŠA NA DELU
ZASTRUPLJENA DUŠA
PREKARNA DUŠA
ZAKLJUČEK
O avtorju
Franco Berardi Bifo is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Like others Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970’s, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980’s he contributed to the magazines Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990’s he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), and Felix (Rome, 2001). He is currently collaborating on the magazine Derive Approdi as well as teaching social history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. He is the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org and the telestreet phenomenon.
When Soul Has to Work
Reception in Public
Franco Berardi Bifo: Človeška vrsta se končuje
Interview
Dnevnik / Objkektiv / 24. 5. 2014
Franko Berardi Bifo: Glavni izziv je danes tišina. Ugasniti stroj
Interview
Delo / Sobotna priloga / 30. 5. 2014
Franco Berardi Bifo at Studio City
TV Slovenija / 2. 6. 2014
Marcel Štefančič jr.: Odhod delavk iz tovarne
Mladina / 6. 6. 2014
Franco Berardi Bifo, italijanski medijski teoretik
TV Slovenija / Osmi dan / 22. 5. 2014