Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking
place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims
are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the
subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate
to each other, and our ability to imagine a future. Precarization and
fractalization of labor have provoked a deep mutation in the psychosphere, and
this can be seen in the rise of psychopathologies such as post-traumatic stress
disorder, autism, panic, and attention deficit disorder. Sketching out an
aesthetic genealogy of capitalist globalization, Berardi shows how we have
arrived at a point of