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Uprising : On Poetry and Finance by Franco Bifo. Berardi (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Uprising : On Poetry and Finance by Franco Bifo. Berardi (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSemiotexte The Limited

ISBN-101584351128

ISBN-139781584351122

eBay Product ID (ePID)117283279

Product Key Features

Book TitleUprising : on Poetry and Finance

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEconomics / General, Political, Economics / Theory

Publication Year2012

GenrePhilosophy, Business & Economics

AuthorFranco Bifo. Berardi

Book SeriesSemiotext (E) / Intervention Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.5 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width4.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number14

Dewey Decimal306.2094

SynopsisA 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHB3717