Reframing eco-activism after Copenhagen: Activism and passivism when time is running out March 4, 2010

What? Lecture

Where? Adelphi Building, Salford campus

Who for? Everyone

How much? Free

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Franco Berardi (Bifo) is a writer, media theorist and media-activist. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he was a key animator of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He was involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the '70's and he worked with Felix Guattari, in the field of Schizoanalysis. During the 80s he contributed to the magazine Semiotexte (New York), Chimeres (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milano). In the 90s he worked in the fields of cyberculture and TV interventions.

He was one of the founders of the Telestreet media activism network, and co-author of the book: Ethereal Shadows: Power and Communications in Contemporary Italy and author of Felix Guattari, Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation and The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. He teaches social history of the media at the Accademia di Brera, in Milano. He is currently working on a major book Sensibility in the Age of Connectivity.

Official Website: http://www.salford.ac.uk/events/details/1144