The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance: Volume 14

Franco Bifo Berardi

ISBN 10: 1584351128 / ISBN 13: 9781584351122

Published by Autonomedia, 2012

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2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. "Poetry is the language of nonexchangeability, the return of infinite hermeneutics, and the return of the sensuous body of language. I'm talking about poetry here as an excess of language, a hidden resource which enables us to shift from one paradigm to another."--P. [4] of cover. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 116 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance: Volume 14
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584351128
• ISBN 13: 9781584351122
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A manifesto against the concepts of growth and debt, and a call for a reinvestment in the social body.

The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco “Bifo” Berardi argues that the notion of economic recovery is complete mythology. The coming years will inevitably see new surges of protest and violence, but the old models of resistance no longer apply. Society can either stick with the prescriptions and “rescues” that the economic and financial sectors have demanded at the expense of social happiness, culture, and the public good; or it can formulate an alternative. For Berardi, this alternative lies in understanding the current crisis as something more fundamental than an economic crisis: it is a crisis of the social imagination, and demands a new language by which to address it.

This is a manifesto against the idea of growth, and against the concept of debt, the financial sector's two primary linguistic means of manipulating society. It is a call for exhaustion, and for resistance to the cult of energy on which today's economic free-floating market depends. To this end, Berardi introduces an unexpected linguistic political weapon—poetry: poetry as the insolvency of language, as the sensuous birth of meaning and desire, as that which cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. If the protests now stirring about the world are to take shape and direction, then the revolution will be neither peaceful nor violent—it will be linguistic, or will not be at all.

About the Author

Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous “Radio Alice” in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.