Franco Berardi Bifo - Slump Franco Berardi Bifo Stanno suonando le trombe del giudizio? L’orizzonte economico che si presenta nel primo scorcio dell’anno 2016 suscita vivo sgomento negli osservatori. Mario Draghi ripete l’esorcismo estremo: «Whatever it takes». Ma il pericolo attuale non è più quello di un collasso finanziario come nel 2008. Il pericolo è quello di una crisi di sovrapproduzione globale, e di una stagnazione di lungo periodo. Il 10 gennaio il «New York Times» ha pubblicato un articolo di Clifford Kraus dedicato agli effetti che il calo della domanda cinese produce sull’economia globale: «Per anni la Cina s’è ingozzata di ogni tipo di metalli e di energia perché la sua economia si espandeva rapidamente; le grandi aziende hanno ampliato aggressivamente le loro operazioni di estrazione e produzione, scommettendo sulla prospettiva che l’appetito cinese sarebbe continuato per sempre. Scrive ancora Kraus: «I bassi tassi di interesse hanno alimentato il boom produttivo. Perché la domanda crolla?
Slavoj Zizek In the good old Soviet times, the Serbsky Institute in Moscow was the psychiatric flagship for punitive political control; its psychiatrists developed painful drug methods to make detainees talk and extract testimony for use in national security investigations. Underpinning the ability of psychiatrists to incarcerate people was an invented political mental disorder known as vyalotekushchayaâ ("sluggish schizophrenia"). Psychiatrists described the disease as a person appearing quite normal most of the time but who would break out with a severe case of "inflexibility of convictions," or "nervous exhaustion brought on by his or her search for justice," or "a tendency to litigation" or "reformist delusions." The treatment involved intravenous injections of psychotropic drugs that were so painfully administered patients became unconscious. Later, Gibson offered a more substantial apology, announcing through a spokesman that he would undergo rehabilitation for alcohol abuse.
Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Slavoj Žižek, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). Slavoj Žižek recieved his Ph.D. in Philosophy in Ljubljana studying Psychoanalysis. He also studied at the University of Paris. Slavoj Žižek is a cultural critic and philosopher who is internationally known for his innovative interpretations of Jacques Lacan. Slavoj Žižek has been called the ‘Elvis Presley’ of philosophy as well as an 'academic rock star'. Slavoj Žižek was born into a family of average wealth, his father Jože Žižek grew up in eastern Slovenia and worked in economics. The Marxist Slovenian philosopher Božidar Debenjak was an early influence on Slavoj Žižek. Slavoj Žižek was hired at the University of Ljubljana in 1971 where he worked as an assistant researcher.
Radio Alice compie 40 anni - Il ricordo di Bifo L'inno americano storpiato dalla chitarra elettrica di Jimi Hendrix. È stato questo il vagito di Radio Alice, nata 40 anni fa in una mansarda al civico 41 di via del Pratello, Bologna, dall'idea di un gruppo di amici e studenti soprattutto del Dams. Figlia legittima della voglia di sperimentazione, creatività, provocazione e libertà che si respirava in quegli anni sotto i portici, nelle università, e non solo. IL POETA E L'INGEGNERE. Ma soprattutto un'esperienza che rappresentava «la prima convergenza tra lavoro tecnico e lavoro creativo», racconta a Lettera43.it Franco Bifo Berardi, uno dei fondatori. «L'alleanza», continua sorridendo, «tra il poeta e l'ingegnere». Franco 'Bifo' Berardi. DOMANDA.
Slavoj Zizek: Capitalism with Asian values - Talk to Al Jazeera From the Middle East to the streets of London and cities across the US there is a discontent with the status quo. Whether it is with the iron grip of entrenched governments or the widening economic divide between the rich and those struggling to get by. But where are those so hungry for change heading? How profound is their long-term vision to transform society? Slovenian-born philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whose critical examination of both capitalism and socialism has made him an internationally recognised intellectual, speaks to Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman about the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system. In his distinct and colourful manner, he analyses the Arab Spring, the eurozone crisis, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and the rise of China. Slavoj Zizek's latest book is Living in the End Times (Verso).
Madness and Habit in German Idealism I The shift from Aristotle to Kant, to modernity with its subject as pure autonomy: the status of habit changes from organic inner rule to something mechanic, the opposite of human freedom: freedom cannot ever become habit(ual), if it becomes a habit, it is no longer true freedom (which is why Thomas Jefferson wrote that, if people are to remain free, they have to rebel against the government every couple of decades). This eventuality reaches its apogee in Christ, who is "the figure of a pure event, the exact opposite of the habitual". [1] There is, of course, a big difference between the zombie-like sluggish automated movements and the subtle plasticity of habits proper, of their refined know-how; however, these habits proper arise only when the level of habits is supplemented by the level of consciousness proper and speech. As Catherine Malabou notes, Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit begins with the study of the same topic that Philosophy of Nature ends with: the soul and its functions.
Quarant'anni dopo, perché vi interessa ancora Radio Alice? di Valerio Minnella Pochi giorni fa è venuto ad intervistarmi un giornalista-scrittore, Luca Rota, che sta lavorando ad un piccolo nuovo libro su Radio Alice, che sarà presto nelle librerie. Luca, fra l’altro, mi ha domandato «Cosa resta oggi di Radio Alice, dopo quasi 40 anni? In tema di retaggio mediatico ma, ancor più, tematico, filosofico, “spirituale”…» Lì per lì gli ho risposto «Questa domanda dovrei sottoporla io a te, non viceversa. In questi giorni con Nino, uno dei compagni di un tempo, abbiamo cominciato la ristrutturazione del sito www.radioalice.org, che mettemmo in piedi alla fine degli anni ’90 e che dal 2002 era lì abbandonato; Quando sono andato ad integrare la pagina che raccoglie tutti i libri che parlano di Alice, fra quelli specifici sulla Radio, che ne parlano a fondo, e quelli che la citano solo, ne ho contati più di venti e so che qualcuno ancora manca. Allora la domanda di Luca mi è tornata in testa. Sono quarant’anni che è nata Radio Alice. Vm d Febbraio 1976.
Notes Toward A New Political Taxonomy | Politics It has become clear to me over the years that one of the causes of persistent confusion in our political arguments is the interchangeable use of taxonomic terms that, while they may have a natural affinity, are not actually synonyms. Three terms that tend to get used interchangeably are: Left Liberal Progressive Their counterparts on the other side of the political spectrum are treated similarly: Right Conservative Reactionary The shades of difference among the meanings of the words within the triads, however, are not minor. I propose, therefore, to accentuate the differences between the words commonly lumped together, to clear up all ambiguities by assigning technical meanings to commonly-used terms, and thereby define a three-dimensional space within which political writers and thinkers could more clearly be pegged. Herewith my new definitions: 1. The core of the difference between a liberal and a conservative outlook relates to one’s basic assumptions about human capacities. 2. 3.
The left’s misguided Realrhetorik; or, Hillary Clinton: the new Michiko Kakutani « wyatt gwyon Almost two years ago, I wrote an essay, “Realrhetorik for chicken liberals,” criticizing New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani for lambastingJames Frey, author of the Oprah-endorsed and largely fabricated memoir A Million Little Pieces, using what I call “Realrhetorik”: a rhetoric that adopts as the ultimate measure of correctness a provable correspondence to the forced and faux materiality of “the real.” Tangibly this means that for Kakutani, Frey, in fabricating a memoir, has betrayed an abstract “reality” rather than, say, his readers. I return to this Kakutani conflict today after coming across of a passage by Argentinean political theorist Ernesto Laclau, who puts the point I made two years ago about the dangers of the left adopting the right’s Realrhetorik (in reference to Kakutani on Frey) in clearer, if more abstract, terms: [T]he Right and the Left are not fighting at the same level. Like this: Like Loading...
C'è una via d'uscita dalla guerra civile globale? (parte I) Nelle ultime settimane ha provocato una sospensione delle libertà civili in Francia senza alcuna opposizione, ha favorito l'affermazione del Front National, oltre all'inasprimento della xenofobia in tutto l'occidente. Le politiche austeritarie imposte in Europa dalla finanza globale e dallo stato tedesco hanno preparato il terreno per l’affermazione della destra che è un elemento essenziale della precipitazione in corso. Le origini della guerra si trovano nei duecento anni di impoverimento coloniale e di umiliazione della grande maggioranza della popolazione mondiale, e negli ultimi trent’anni di fanatica competizione neoliberista e particolarmente nella privatizzazione di ogni cosa, compresa la guerra. Il passato presenta il conto. Il pacifismo diviene irrilevante poiché le cause della guerra sembrano essere irreversibili. In questo modo le armi disponibili aumentano non soltanto negli arsenali delle potenze nazionali, ma anche nelle cucine e nelle sale da letto della famiglie normali.
92% Of Americans Are Socialists They Just Don't Know It Wealth inequality is as extreme today as it was during the Great Depression years. In real terms, the wealthy hold the majority of this nation’s wealth and income. The problem in this country is mass disillusionment. In a recent study by Duke and Harvard University they found many Americans believe that the top 20% of our nation’s wealthiest own 60% of the wealth. When the respondents were asked to pick an unlabeled pie chart “How much should the top 20% own?” Here is the actual study. Americans Prefer Sweden For the first task, we created three unlabeled pie charts of wealth distributions, one of which depicted a perfectly equal distribution of wealth. 92% of the respondents believe in the socialistic economic wealth distribution of Sweden. This current Republican Great Recession has started to open the eyes of many Americans. The people are getting restless, the jobs are scarce and the jobs that are available pay lower wages than before due to a higher supply of labor in the market.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK, God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology Kyle Minor The latest installment in the New York Public Library’s Three Faiths Exhibition (some of which is available online here) is a 106 minute lecture by Slavoj Zizek which is among the most plainspoken and accessible Slavoj Zizek lectures I’ve ever heard (click here for the lecture). The St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in New York maintains (or at least used to maintain) the custom of inviting a stranger, often a non-Christian one, to deliver a sermon once each year. (The most famous of these sermons became the centerpiece of Kurt Vonnegut’s Palm Sunday.) An early provocation in Zizek’s address is the intentional oversimplification that without religion, good people would do good things and bad people would do bad things, but only under the sanction of religion will good people do bad things.
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