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

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had belonged individually to each and every thing.He took up man, a work of indeterminate form; and,him at the midpoint of the world, He spoke to him as(We have given to thee, Adam, no fixed seat, no formthy very own, no gift peculiarly thine, that thou mayest feelthine own, have as thine own, possess as thine Own thethe form, the gifts which thou thyself shalt desire. A ""me'll'nature in other creatures is confined within the laws .... ,""down by Us. In conformiry with thy free judgment, inhands I have placed thee, thou art confined by no bounds;and thou wilt fix limits of nature for thyself. I have placedthee at the center of the world, that from rhere thou mayestmore conveniently look around and see whatsoever is in theworld. Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal norimmortal have We made thee. Thou, like a judge appOinted fo rbeing honorable, art the molder and maker of thyself; thoumayest sculpt thyself into whatever shape thou dost prefer.Thou canst grow downward into the lower natures which arebrutes. Thou canst again grow upward from thy soul's reasoninto the higher natures which are divine,»)8Writing his speech on human digniry at the end of the fifteenthtury, Pico inaugurated the modern horizon: the exercise ofpower is not established by any archerype, norm or necessiry, sinceCreator did not determine in any way the path that slhe needsfollow. In those same years a newly Christianized Spain eXIJelled
ThR PrACf'lriolJ8 Soul / 205"More essential than instituting rules is that man findto his abode in the truth of Being [ . . . J, Thus languageonce the house of Being and the home of human beings.because language is the home of the essence of manhistorical mankind and human beings not be at home inlanguage, so that for them language becomes a mere corrtainlfor their sundry preoccupations."IOLanguage is the house of Being, but at the same timetells us that language belongs to technique: techniquear once its privileged object and the subject that produces,ciates, programs."The fundamental event of modernity is the conquest ofworld as picture. From now on the word 'picture' means:collective image of representing production [.. . J. For theof this battle of world views, and accordingly to its meaning,humanity sets in motion, with respect to everything, theunlimited process of calculation, planning, and breeding,Science as research is the indispensable form taken by thisself-establishment in the world; it is one of the pathwaysalong which, with a speed unrecognized by those who areinvolved, modernity races towards the fulfillment of itsessence."llBut who are they? They are human beings, little by littleAeoriv"a of the authority to rule the world, and replaced by theaUl:onratJ!srtlS which penetrate the world and redefine it. Heideggerthat human beings ("those involved") cannot recognize thespeed with which modernity races towards the fulfillment of its'essence, since this fulfillment is precisely the unawareness of human' h"im!S, their dependency on automatisms. Humans are less and lessof the process that they themselves initiated. Thanks to theirfreedom, born from the distance between Being and existent, andthe ontologically unprejudiced character of existence, humanitycame to the point of realizing a technical realm installed in theempty place of Being. The empty place of Being is thus filled by theperformative power of the technosphere, and the numeric conventionis transformed into an operational device.The end of Humanism stems from the power of Humanism itselfThe last words in this quote need some attention. Mer havingthat modernity is the conquest and submission of the worldpicture finally reduced to an integrated form, Heidegger comesthe conclusion that this process takes place at a speed un.re
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PrefaceSoul on StrikeThe soul is th
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Instability is now the order of the
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dynamics of contemporary class anta
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Introduction"Those who maintain tha
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In this book I want to compare the
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contribution consists in the reform
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externalisation of the worker in hi
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matter that is important for us: th
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civilization. Only the estrangement
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political instruments of attack and
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To assert that knowledge needs to b
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LAhor and AlienAtion in the ohiloso
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production process itself; the rela
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capital semiotizes the technologica
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Labor and Alienation in the philoso
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2Digital technologies open a comple
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78 1 The Soul at Worktheir labor to
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of relation to the world, time, and
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velocity in the relation between st
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The mobility of the product was mad
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First of all, digital technology sp
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Thf1 Soul at Work / 99inducing drug
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