Franco ''Bifo'' Berardi - The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy

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Contents Preface by Jason Smith 9 Introduction 21 1. Labor and Alienation in the philosophy of the 1960s 27 2. The Soul at Work 74 3. The Poisoned Soul 106 4. The Precarious Soul 184 Conclusion 207 Notes 223
Preface Soul on Strike The soul is the clinamen of the body. It is how it falls, and what makes it fall in with other bodies. The soul is its gravity. This tendency for certain bodies to fall in with others is what constitutes a world. The materialist tradition represented by Epicurus and Lucretius proposed a worldless time in which bodies rain down through the plumbless void, straight down and side-by-side, until a sudden, unpredictable deviation or swerve-clinamen-leans bodies toward one another, so that they come together in a lasting way. The soul does not lie beneath the skin. It is the angle of this swerve and what then holds these bodies together. It spaces bodies, rather than hiding within them; it is among them, their consistency, the affinity they have for one another. It is what they share in common: neither a form, nor some thing, but a rhythm, a certain way of vibrating, a resonance. Frequency, tuning or tone. To speak of a soul at work is to move the center of gravity in contemporary debates about cognitive capitalism. The soul is not simply the capacity for abstraction, for the subsumption of the particular. It is an aesthetic organ as well, the exposure of thought to the contractions and dilations of space, to the quickening and lapsing of time. To say the soul is put to work is to affirm that the \ social brain or general intellect (to use two of Marx's phrases that 9
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see or hear. Advertising constantly
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pleasure of enjoying the other, who
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anticipated that the earth would be
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for the majority of a humanity depr
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imagination: they are temporaty rea
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Political action must happen theref
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external and objective existence of
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young man's heart belongs to the ot
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historical horizons, In Eros and C
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new definition had an extremely pow
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has 'autonomic' systems, the operat
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perceive them. Politics is weakened
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development, and the economy of vir
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of production based on high-tech/lo
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9. Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imag
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32. Ibid. p. 19. 33. Jean Baudrilla
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