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And: Phenomenology of the End

And: Phenomenology of the End

Berardi, Franco Bifo

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Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1584351705
ISBN13: 9781584351702
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: Nov 6 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility: a deep mutation in the psychosphere, caused by semio-capitalism.

Franco Bifo Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility--changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a future. 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.

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