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This book is more of a historiography than a direct historical account of the shift from a proletariat economy to a 'cognetariat' one. I am only recently familiar with Deleuze and Guattari's work, but Berardi's choice to adopt their meaning of 'desire' (i.e. as a field rather than a force) seems to advance a term that might otherwise be read as a possessive will-to-power. However, being much more convinced by Baudrillard's arguments about desire's role in perpetuating ever new objects, I don't s...
الكتاب مهم ﻷي حد عايز يفهم طبيعة العمل دلوقتيخاتمة الكتاب مانيفستو للأيام اللي عايشينها دلوقتي
This book is beautiful, a manifesto towards a new way of existing beyond the confines of an economic/cultural system that has transformed our bodies and our souls. Yes, yes, yes!
"Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word “wealth.” Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the ve...
interesting analysis of work and life in contemporary capitalism. Although some of the comments made about contemporary work-relations and environments lack some empirical grounding and I am pretty skeptical of Berardi's prescribed solutions.
Bayıla bayıla okudum. Çalışmak ,depresyon, psikoterapi, politik mücadele kavramlarına bakışımı çok zenginleştirdi. Ayrıca Franco ''Bifo'', bir sürü alıntılarla da bahsettiği konularla alakalı kimler ne demiş çok güzel, tek tek anlatıyor.(Özellikle Baudrillard, Guattari ve Deleuze'den alıntı yapıyor en çok.) Çoğu şeye bakışımı gerçekten çok etkileyen bi kitap oldu. İnsanların nasıl olup da işi ve çalışmayı bu kadar sevdiğini, işleri ile aralarındaki bağları daha iyi anlıyorum artık, kafamdaki baz...
Some shining passages."Our desiring energy is trapped in the trick of self-enterprise, our libidinal investments are regulated according to economic rules, our attention is captured in the precariousness of virtual networks: every fragment of mental activity must be transformed into capital. "
Um, I really liked this book, but was occasionally frustrated by it. For example, "cognitariat". I'm skeptical of the utility of this term to describe most precarious labor in the US. Based on my experiences doing precarious labor in various capacities, most of it would not best be described as cognitive. Making sandwiches or doing data entry is certainly immaterial labor (in the sense that nothing is really produced), but it's mostly a set of rote, memorized tasks. If one voluntarily works over...
Who doesn't want to read?: "Society does not need more work, more jobs, more competition. On the contrary: we need a massive reduction in work-time, a prodigious liberation of life from the social factory, in order to reweave the fabric of the social relation."
In his Letter on Humanism Heidegger already shows how humanism is in danger: it is actually condemned by the 'beyond the human' that is implicit in the mathematization and the digitalization of knowledge of knowledge, and by the automatization of life. The will to power produced the instruments of its own end, and the end of human freedom, that is to say the quintessentially human: since human is situated in a space of freedom that technology eliminates.It should not be inferred that Berardi med...
This is one of the most inspiring works I've read in a while. The Italian Marxist Berardi offers a fresh new perspective on contemporary society and advice for its overcoming. He starts off by examining the changing socio-economic conditions in the developed world since the last great anti-capitalist revolts of the 1960s. He claims that progress made by capitalism in liberal society was a consequence of leftist grassroots movements and social democracy, rather than the system's "internal contrad...
Yeni dünya düzeni ne olacak şeklinde salgından sonrasını merak etmekteyken, neden böyle oldu sorusuna dönüp geleceğe ordan baktırıyor bence bu kitap. İnsan ne zaman yaptığı işle gurur duyar hale geldi, instagram gibi kullanıcılarının çoğu için kişisel olan hesaplarının bio kısmına ne zaman mesleğini yazdıracak kadar kendini mesleğiyle tanımlar oldu? Şimdilik anladığım kadarıyla, 60 ve 70 lerdeki işçi hareketlerinin hızı, entellektüel birikime dayalı üretilen teknolojilerin hızına yetişemediği za...
Berardi's book is very approachable if one wants to apply the lessons of Deleuze & Guattari, Foucualt, and Baudrillard to the present. I also, like with Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire by Frédéric Lordon, enjoyed reading a re-interpretation of the concept of alienation. Berardi's main project however is to rethink economy, or economic crisis to be specific, from a schizoanalytical perspective. While it might certainly succeed in making the reader consider these aspects in n...
Mülk biriktirmek marifetiyle varılması gereken bir doruk olduğuna inandırıldığımız “zenginlik” kavramı üzerine yeniden düşünmeye cesareti olanları; neoliberal dünyanın öğrettiği rekabet güdüsüyle içine çekildiğimiz panik hâli ve depresyonla yüzleşmeye cesareti olanları; gelir ile iş performansı, iş sevgisi ile para, para ile mutluluk arasında pozitif korelasyon olduğuna dair dogmaları baştan savmaya cesareti olanları; kısacası, cesareti olanları okuyup anlamaya davet ettiğim, sürükleyici değil,
Berardi's book is a welcome compliment to other works which deal with a similar problem from other perspectives, such as one work which he directly borrows from in the work - Alain Ehrenberg's La fatigue d'être soi. It wrestles with the plague of depression in heavily-industrialized economies which depend increasingly on cognitive labour, the domain of Berardi's conception of a 'cognitariat'. He touches on a particularly salient point - that happiness is not a matter of science so much as ideolo...
This book is amazing and often completely overlooked. It has a quirky way of locating the origins of Autonomous Marxism-- part of which is rather insightful and part of which that just seems downright cranky. This book is very revealing in the links between Workerism, May '68, and post-structural theory.
The best book I have read in years, explains our past, present and future. My New bible.
It has been quite some time since I last read this work, and my copy is either packed up or loaned out to someone, so I am working strictly from memory. At my first reading I do recall being struck by the analysis of labour relations in the digital age, and the vanishing of the space and time necessary for the elaboration of what it means to be human. Semiocapitalism is, I believe, Bifo's coinage, and it raises the question of how the capture of meaning - of everything that we might mean by the
I agree with the overall premise of the book, but I find his treatment of depression to be a little bit too light of the actual fields of psychology and it really tries hard to root it in Marxist theory and that part falls short. There are times where the book gets too caught up in media analysis, but I love that it uses media analysis to examine the world - analysis of analysis so to speak.Decent read, at times brilliantly written, at other times obfuscated.
semiotics/schizoanalysis noob but this was an incredibly rewarding read for a bunch of different reasons. easily the densest thing i’ve ever laid eyes on so i won’t even try to give an actual review on the literature but the chapter on autonomic post humanism processes overcrowding the soul to the point of precariousness — wow, just beautifully addressed. maybe i should’ve started with some more foundational primers to left poli theory than jumping head first into this but i think it’ll be somet...