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Futurability : the age of impotence and the horizon of possibility / Franco 'Bifo' Berardi.
Author
Berardi, Franco
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; Brooklyn : Verso, 2017.
Description
viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BC199.P7 B47 2017
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Possibility
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Power (Social sciences)
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Globalization
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Civilization, Modern
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Philosophy
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Summary note
We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination?00In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Characterizing Possibility as the content, Potency as the energy, and Power as the form, Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unravels from the awareness that the field of the possible is only limited, and not created, by the power structures that implement it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present, despite power's attempt at keeping them invisible. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of 'futurability' as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis lies dormant the horizon of possibility.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.
Contents
Part I. Potency
The age of impotence
Humanism, misogyny and late modern thought
The dark side of desire
Part II. Power
Automation and terror
Necro-capitalism
Money code and automation
Part III. Possibility
Conundrum
Superstition
Disentanglement
A short history of the general intellect
Dynamics of the general intellect
Invention
Afterword: The inconceivable.
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ISBN
9781784787431 ((alk. paper))
1784787434 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2017006308
OCLC
984898833
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