[LAF] Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha  
generation
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

Edited by Erik Empson & Stevphen Shukaitis
Translated by Arianna Bove, Michael Goddard, Giusppina Mecchia,  
Antonella Schintu, and Steve Wright

An infinite series of bifurcations: this is how we can tell the story  
of our life, of our loves, but also the history of revolts, defeats  
and restorations of order. At any given moment different paths open up  
in front of us, and we are continually presented with the alternative  
of going here or going there. Then we decide, we cut out from a set of  
infinite possibilities and choose a single path. But do we really  
choose? Is it really a question of a choice, when we go here rather  
than there?  Is it really a choice, when masses go to shopping  
centers, when revolutions are transformed into massacres, when nations  
enter into war? It is not we who decide but the concatenations:  
machines for the liberation of desires and mechanisms of control over  
the imaginary. The fundamental bifurcation is always this one: between  
machines for liberating desire and mechanisms of control over the  
imaginary. In our time of digital mutation, technical automatisms are  
taking control of the social psyche.

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). He is author of numerous books, including Ethereal  
Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy, The Panther  
and the Rhizome, Politics of Mutation, Philosophy and Politics in the  
Twilight of Modernity, and The Factory of Unhappiness. He is currently  
collaborating on the magazine DeriveApprodi as well as teaching social  
history of communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan.

Released by Minor Compositions, London
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing  
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions  
of everyday life.

Distributed by Autonomedia & AK Press.
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154 pages, 6” x 9”
ISBN 978-1-57027-207-3

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Stevphen Shukaitis
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