[LAF] 27/2 Communism is Back and We Should Call It Singularity

[Stevphen Shukaitis]

Communism is Back and We Should Call It Singularity

a book launch and discussion with Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Friday February 27th, 2009
Octagon Room, People’s Palace, 5PM
University of London, Queen Mary
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

“One hundred years ago Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism.  
It inaugurated a century that believed in the future – initiating a  
process where the collective organism became machine-like. This  
becoming-machine has reached its finale with the concatenations of the  
global web and is now being overturned by the collapse of a financial  
system founded on the futurisation of the economy, debt and economic  
promise. That promise is over. The era of post-future has begun.” –  
 From the Manifesto of Post-Futurism

Franco Berardi will be discussing communism as singularity and  
presenting his books. The event marks the first and long awaited  
publication of his work in English: Félix Guattari. Thought,  
Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (2008) and Precarious Rhapsody:  
Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation  
(forthcoming).

The launch will be followed by a social evening at the Freedom  
Bookshop, Angel Alley,
84b Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX. All welcome.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi is a writer, critic, and pioneer media theorist.  
Like others involved in the Italian political movement of Autonomia,  
during the 1970s he fled to Paris, where he worked with Félix Guattari  
in the field of schizoanalysis. He is the co-founder of  
rekombinant.org and the free pirate television network Telestreet. He  
is also Professor of Social History of Communication at the Accademia  
di Belle Arti of Milan. For more information and writings by the  
author, including his recent Post-Futurist Manifesto, visit http://www.generation-online.org/p/pbifo.htm 
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“Gilles Deleuze was welcomed into the reception room of university  
respectability, while Félix Guattari was left out. He was not an  
academic and he mixed with the wrong crowd. Guattari without Deleuze  
built a philosophical style out of his psychiatric practice, his work  
as a political militant, and his training in biology and pharmacology.  
To the rhizomatic machine Guattari brought the concrete micro-material  
of his inquiry, the molecular method of 'cut-up', montage,  
decomposition and recomposition, and combinatory creation. The  
crystalline acuity of the Deleuzian philosophical razor combined with  
the Guattarian material swarm of bio-informational principles form the  
rhizomatic machine.” – from Félix Guattari. Thought, Friendship, and  
Visionary Cartography.

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