Franco Berardi

The feeling that the future itself has been canceled, leaving us stuck in an endless loop of repetition.

Franco Berardi called it the slow cancellation of the future, a phrase that captures both the termination and its gradual nature.

The future didn't disappear overnight.

It withered.

And the one thing it makes me think of is one manuscript I'm working on.

Have you come across before the work of Franco Berardi Bifo? There was a book he wrote in the early 90s, which basically the title is How to Cure the Fascist.

And his whole argument is like, he's writing there today saying, okay, why are we seeing a reemergence of right-wing neo-fascist politics? What's happening here? What do you do about it? It basically gets to is, well, you're not going, and in some ways it kind of echoes some of the points you make, which is like, you're not going to smash fascism.

You have to understand where these desires are coming from and address them.