Futurability
Subtitle: the age of impotence and the horizon of possibility
By: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781784787431
Subjects: Globalization; Modern Civilization; Political aspects; Philosophy; Possibility; Power (Social sciences)
Description: 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? In 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Potency; title: The age of impotence; title: Humanism, misogyny, and late modern thought; title: The dark side of desire; title: Power; title: Automation and terror; title: Necro-capitalism; title: Money code and automation; title: Possibility; title: Conundrum; title: Superstition; title: Disentanglement; title: A short history of the general intellect; title: Dynamics of the general intellect; title: Invention; title: The inconceivable.