After the Future

After the Future explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the "future," starting with Marinetti's "Futurist Manifesto," tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now it's our responsibility to decide what comes next.

Preface: The Transversal Communism of Franco Berardi, by Gary Genosko and Nicholas ThoburnIntroduction by Franco Berardi1. The Century that Trusted in the FutureFuturism and the Reversal of the FutureThe Media Utopia of the Avant-GardeZaum and TechnomayaActivismConnection and SensibilityEnd of the FutureCursed Be the ProphetThe Last UtopiaInversion of the Future2. The Zero Zero DecadeFrom Seattle to CopenhagenOn the Brink of DisasterAfter the Dotcom CrashThe Fuzzy Economy of Cognitive LaborInfolabor and PrecarisationCity of Panic3. Baroque and SemiocapitalLumpen ItalianLanguage and PoisonThe Italian AnomalyShirkersAleatory Value in Neo-Baroque SocietySelf Despise4. Exhaustion and SubjectivityPrecarious FutureExhaustion: Re-reading BaudrillardNecronomySingularity InsurrectionWhen Old People Fall in LoveHappy EndAfter FuturismAppendix: Interview with Franco BerardiBibliography