Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

On Western Maoism, Autonomia, culture, Umberto Eco etc.

Franco Berardi, alias "Bifo”, was one of the main figures of the Movement of 77 in Bologna. He was arrested at that time under the charge of “subversive association”. We asked Bifo to write the following presentation on the context in which the Movement developed and the problems it had to confront up to, and after, the April 7 arrests.

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi on the poetry of Nanni Balestrini

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's impressions of Seoul upon his visit to South Korea. Gratefully replicated from his book Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide …

Bifo on the beginning and the end of the future as an idea and what comes next.

Franco Berardi's examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture--and a clarion call for a "conspiracy of estranged…

This text is based on a panel talk (together with Nina Power) by Bifo during the event ‘We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion’, organised by Auto Italia in collaboration with Federico Campagna, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell and Charlie Woolley in August 2011. Originally published in January 2012.

An edition of the Novara radio show looking at the theme of the ‘graduate without a future’ with James Butler @piercepenniless and Aaron Peters …

Ben Lear's review of Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's book After the Future. Originally published in…

Book review about Franco Berardi's The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy

Malcolm Harris contests the viability of Berardi's conception of "slowing down" to defeat capitalism.

Semiotext(e)'s book Autonomia: Post-Political Politics about the Autonomia movement, which contains first-hand documents and contemporaneous…