The main cultural transformation of modern capitalism has been the creation of refrains of temporal perception that pervade and discipline society: the refrain of factory work, the refrain of the salary, the refrain of production line. The digital transition has brought along with it new refrains: electronic fragmentation, information overload, acceleration of the semiotic exchange. Fractalization of time, competition. The essential feature of refrain is the rhythm. Rhythm is the relation of a subjective flow of signs (musical, poetic, gestual signs) with the environment: cosmic environment, earthly environment, social environment. Rhythm is singular and collective. It is singularizing the sound of the world in a special modeling of the environmental sound. But it is able to trigger a process of agglutination, of sensitive and sensible communality. Sometime people start to sing the same song, and to dance the same dance. It can be dangerous, and on this kind of homogeneous subjectivation is based fascism, and modern totalitarianism in general. But it can happen in ironic and nomadic ways. People start to create a new song, and they do it together. That’s a movement.
Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous “Radio Alice” in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.
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R.H. Quaytman: Book
Vortrag, 30. April 2024, 19:00
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Vortrag, 23. April 2024, 19:00
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Veranstaltung, 10. Februar 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Ausstellung, 9. – 11. Februar 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Vortrag, 6. Februar 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Vortrag, 30. Januar 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Vortrag, 25. Januar 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Vortrag & Screening, 22. – 23. Januar 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Vortrag, 16. Januar 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evokation, Installation, Simulation
Vortrag, 9. Januar 2024, 19:00
Franco Berardi (Bifo)
Vortrag 10. Mai 2011, 19:00 Portikus, Alte Brücke 2 / Maininsel, 60594 Frankfurt am Main