Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Italian writer, activist and media theorist associated with the Autonomia movement; co-founder of Radio Alice and author of essays on media, labor, and contemporary capitalism (notably on 'semiocapitalism').

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  1. 1. The Third Unconscious

    A compact theoretical diagnosis of how late-capitalist, networked media reshape human subjectivity, arguing that a new layer of the unconscious has been formed by the fusion of neurophysiology, language and digital communication; this emergent ‘third’ unconscious reorganizes attention, affect and rhythm so that cognitive labor, emotional exhaustion and the commodification of desire become central features of contemporary life, even as new possibilities for collective listening, aesthetic practice and political reactivation remain embedded in those same channels.

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