The Second Coming
Reeks: Theory Redux
Franco Berardi
- We
- have
- entered
- the
- gateway
- to
- the
- apocalypse.
- This
- theological
- concept
- is
- the
- best
- metaphor
- to
- describe
- the
- world
- in
- which
- we
- are
- already
- living.
- Chaos
- is
- all
- around
- us:
- political
- folly,
- economical
- delirium,
- ecological
- catastrophe,
- intellectual
- cynicism,
- technological
- simulation
- of
- life.
- This
- is
- what
- Franco
- ‘Bifo’
- Berardi
- suggests
- in
- this
- wry,
- dark,
- disconcerting
- but
- also
- brilliant
- and
- invigorating
- journey
- through
- the
- main
- events
- that
- we
- have
- witnessed
- in
- recent
- years.One
- century
- after
- the
- Communist
- revolution,
- the
- very
- idea
- that
- the
- world
- could
- be
- changed
- for
- the
- better
- seems
- dead
- once
- and
- for
- all.
- Every
- time
- that
- a
- new
- change
- occurs
- nowadays,
- it
- seems
- to
- be
- a
- change
- for
- the
- worse.
- But
- the
- fact
- that
- nothing
- can
- save
- us
- any
- more
- shouldn’t
- be
- seen
- as
- a
- form
- of
- fatality
- or
- a
- reason
- for
- surrender.
- On
- the
- contrary,
- if
- our
- world
- is
- dead,
- then
- the
- space
- is
- open
- for
- another
- to
- appear
- –
- a
- world
- where
- apocalypse
- can
- shake
- us
- out
- of
- our
- zombie-like
- contemporary
- existence.
- The
- second
- coming
- of
- Communism
- will
- have
- nothing
- to
- do
- with
- 1917.
- Apocalypse
- has
- to
- be
- conceived
- of
- as
- a
- metaphor,
- and
- Communism
- is
- a
- metaphor
- too:
- the
- metaphor
- of
- the
- possible
- deployment
- of
- the
- potentials
- of
- the mind.
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