Franco Berardi Series

Franco Berardi is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist whose work focuses on the role of media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Moving beyond orthodox Marxist analyses of economic cycles, Berardi's theories, drawing on psychoanalysis and communication theory, explore how subjectivity and desire are intertwined with the functioning of the capitalist system. He critiques a traditional Marxist focus on labor, arguing that solutions to contemporary difficulties are not purely economic but rather involve human emotion and embodied communication. Through concepts like the "cognitariat" and "info labor," he analyzes these psycho-social processes and examines cultural representations of the future.