They know its not love.

"To distance oneself professionally through critique, is this not the most active consent to privatize the social individual? The Undercommons might by contrast be understood as wary of critique, wary of it and at the same time dedicated to the collectivity of its future, the collectivity that may come to be its future. The Undercommons try to escape from critique and its degradation as university-conscious and self -consciousness about university consciousness, as Adrian Piper say, into the external world. [ ] The sovereign army of academic antihumanism will pursue this negative community, seeking to conscript it, needing to conscript it. But as seductive as this critique may be, in the Undercommons they know it is not love.

Between the fiat of the ends and the ethics of new beginnings, the Undercommons abide, and some find comfort in this. Comfort for the emigrants from conscription, not to be ready for humanity and who must endure the return of humanity nonetheless, as it may be endured by those who will or must endure it, as certainly those of the Undercommons endure it, always in the break, always the supplement of the general intellect and its source. When the critical academic who lives by fiat (of others) gets no answer, no commitment from the Undercommons, will then certainly the conclusion will come: they are not practical, not serious about change, not rigorous, not productive."

FRED MOTEN, THE UNDERCOMMONS: FUGITIVE PLANNING & BLACK STUDY

BREATHING LANGUAGE LIMIT AND EXCESS or RE-SINGULARIZING THE EVENT: a live anxious poetic transcription of Biffo's talk

I write as I listen to
THE EVENT
waves of BLACK SEMIOTICS
SEMIOTICS OF POLUTION
DE-referentialising
DE-territorializing

What has happened to poetic language in the course of a century of abstraction? What is happening to the social body, what is happening to the erotic body in the digital age? Finance as a language. The limits of language and the limits of the world. Poetry as excess. Poetry is the coming back of the body in the space of financial abstraction.

The Italian philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi was born 65 years ago in Bologna. He was the founder of the magazine a/traverso and an animator of the Italian movement of Autonomia. He has published “The Soul at Work”, “The Uprising” and “Heroes”. His next book “and – Phenomenology of the End” will be published by semiotext(e) at the end of the year.

• Artists: 
  • Berardi 'Bifo' Franco
• Cast: 
  • Berardi 'Bifo' Franco
• Camera: 
  • Janek Rous
• Sound: 
  • Janek Rous
• Editing: 
  • Janek Rous

• Published: 2.10.2015
• Duration: 01:27:46
• Language: EN

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RE SINGULARIZING / RE-BREATHING / RESPIRATING

(live transcription of a segment of "Language, Limit and Excess" - a talk by Franco Bifo Berardi in Prague (OCT 2015)

What can you do if you want to fight against the power of abstraction? FINANCIAL CAPITALISM
PAUSE
SPACE 

You have to reactivate the erotic body.

The problem of breathing comes back in the history of the movement and the history of language.

Poetry is the move.

Poetry is the movement.

Q & A (BIFO)

The only people who can do something about THAT… ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DAILY PRODUCING THE ALGORITHMS.

The cognitive workers (THE general intellect). THE GENERAL INTELLECT HAS NOT BODY… IT IS COMPOSED BY PEOPLE FRIGHTENED, ALONE, ALIENATED, SUFFERING, TAKING A DEADLY COMPETITION, UNABLE TO BE EROTICALLY INVOLVED  IN RELATION TO THE OTHER. 

THE MYSTIC BODY >> I don’t despise the mystic body. I prefer the erotic body… which is not about sex.
Means "happy to be here."

We precarious workers are not happy to be here.

Reality is female, chaotic and feminine

When the chaos become so overwhelming that the human ability to control reality, reality becomes impotent.

We are facing an impotence. A problem of masculine impotence.

We are producing a masculine depression. Governance is the introduction of tecno-linguistic control the inside the living body of society. This is the limiter.

Now we know that the act of evoking the ROSE by means of combination of pixels is our daily practice.  

What is financial capitalism, if not the systematic application of this kind of de-referentalization of money, for instance. Money is less and less THE REFERENCIAL MEASUREMENT OF SOMETHING THAT EXISTED IN NATURE  

The monetary foundation of new liberal revolution is all about the the ability TO PRODUCE the world…to move. 

MONEY LIKE LANGUAGE IS nothing and it moves EVERYTHING.
THAT’S THE POINT: IT IS NOTHING but it is moving everything.

I KNOW THAT FINANCIAL PEOPLE ARE NOT READING RIMBAUD except Thomas Eliot.  

No poet is involved in financial BUSINESS... BUT YOU KNOW... The interaction between the history of language and poetry and the history of economy is connected on this point.

You the artist have opened this door!

Poets do not care. But the poets have responsibility now in a sense. 

Our pleasure now is to play the other game. The play of the coming back of the body of the general intellect

IN ECONOMY... the coming back of use-value

The game of re-erotization of the body in the process of signification.The problem is that we now we are able to… I don’t know if we are able. We need to be able to reactivate the relation of the erotic bodies of the cognitive workers, at the same time we need to reactivate the relation between our body and the body of planet.

We don't need to produce nothing more.

THE COMING BACK OF THE BODY will be the action of the FACIST or the action of the POETS.

singularity vs Singularity

The concept of EVENT is important in a philosophical level.

It is the emergence of a composition of reality which cannot be reduced to an algorithm
THE EVENT - a singular combination of ontological possibilities.
A non-reducible emergence.
The emergence of something that we cannot compare with nothing that existed before
A singular combination of possibilities.

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