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In\u003ci\u003eBreathing\u003c\/i\u003e, Franco \"Bifo\" Berardi comes back to the subject that was the core of his 2011 book,\u003ci\u003eThe Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e-the place of poetry in the relations between language, capital, and possibility. In\u003ci\u003eThe Uprising\u003c\/i\u003e,he focuses on poetry as an anticipation of the trend toward abstraction that led to the present form of financial capitalism. In\u003ci\u003eBreathing\u003c\/i\u003e, he tries to envision poetry as the excess of the field of signification, as the premonition of a possible harmony inscribed in the present chaos.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Uprising\u003c\/i\u003ewas a genealogical diagnosis.\u003ci\u003eBreathing\u003c\/i\u003eis an essay on poetical therapy. How we deal with chaos, as we know that those who fight against chaos will be defeated, because chaos feeds upon war? How do we deal with suffocation? 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Precarization and fractalization of labor have provoked a deep mutation in the psychosphere, and this can be seen in the rise of psychopathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, panic, and attention deficit disorder. Sketching out an aesthetic genealogy of capitalist globalization, Berardi shows how we have arrived at a point of such complexity in the semiotic flows of capital that we can no longer process its excessive currents of information. A swarm effect now rules- it has become impossible to say \"no.\" Social behavior is trapped in inescapable patterns of interaction coded by techno-linguistic machines, smartphones, screens of every size, and all of these sensory and emotional devices end up destroying our organism's sensibility by submitting it to the stress of competition and acceleration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArguing for disentanglement rather than resistance, Berardi concludes by evoking the myth of La Malinche, the daughter of a noble Aztec family. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612798427409,"sku":"GOR006584308","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735515013393,"sku":"NGR9781584351122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50468850991377,"sku":"CIN1584351128G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037757833489,"sku":"NIN9781584351122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326870585617,"sku":"CIN1584351128VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51338236428561,"sku":"GOR009473215","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53220685021457,"sku":"GOR007587026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1584351128.jpg?v=1751423587"},{"product_id":"soul-at-work-book-franco-berardi-9781584350767","title":"The Soul at Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture-and a clarion call for a \"conspiracy of estranged people.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe can reach every point in the world but, more importantly, we can be reached from any point in the world. 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