The Conspiracy Called Movement

In this essay Berardi proclaims that we need to llimit the possibilities for retreat, rather than expand them. Looking optimistically to social movement and a rising collective consciousness against exploitation and austerity, Bifo calls for the generation of "a common sphere of sensibility" that will inform a politics that serves the interests of all, rather than just a few. For Bifo, a technology-induced retreat is at least partially to blame: this is the techno-alienation experienced by today's cognitive labourers, who are also "the first generation of people who have learned more words from a machine than from their mother."