Stevphen Shukaitis on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:13:11 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> the soul @ work |
It's really good to see this coming out. I've read some of the materials it's based on and Bifo has given numerous presentations around these themes this year in London, New York, Helsinki, and Vilnius. Quite a timely and useful book. It is strange, though, how the description says how it is the 'long overdue introduction to English readers.' Strange in that no less than 3 books by Bifo have come out in English during the past year: F?lix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (released by Palgrave, posted here as PDF: http://a.aaaarg.org/) Ethereal Shadows (put out by Autonomedia) Precarious Rhapsody (released by Minor Compositions, posted as PDF here: http://www.minorcompositions.info) And that's in addition to all the materials translated by him that have been circulating on the net and in publications for over thirty years now, most obviously collected on the wonderful Generation OnLine site: http://www.generation-online.org/p/pbifo.htm It does make you wonder, given all that, how this can possibly be thought of as the first introduction to Bifo for English audiences. Is the idea that author and their writing don't exist until a larger publisher put them out? And somehow does web based circulation of knowledge not count as a means of introducing an author. Strange... Cheers Stevphen On 15 Nov 2009, at 14:34, un heimlich wrote: >http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D11880 > >>From Semiotext(e): >The Soul at Work >>From Alienation to Autonomy > >Franco Berardi > >Translated by Francesca >Cadel and Mecchia Giuseppina > >Preface by Jason E. Smith <...> -- Stevphen Shukaitis Autonomedia Editorial Collective http://www.autonomedia.org http://info.interactivist.net "Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts the domination and hegemony of the master?s rule." - subRosa Collective # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org