Franco Bifo Berardi: Franco Berardi, better-known in the United States as "Bifo," is an Italian autonomist philosopher and media activist. One of the founders of the seminal Radio Alice, a notorious pirate radio station that became the voice of the student movement in Italy throughout the 1970s, Bifo is the author of multiple works of theory including the recently-published The Soul at Work (Semiotexte 2009) and "The Post-Futurist Manifesto."

Preface: The Transversal Communism of Franco Berardi, by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn

Introduction by Franco Berardi

1. The Century that Trusted in the Future
Futurism and the Reversal of the Future
The Media Utopia of the Avant-Garde
Zaum and Technomaya
Activism
Connection and Sensibility
End of the Future
Cursed Be the Prophet
The Last Utopia
Inversion of the Future

2. The Zero Zero Decade
From Seattle to Copenhagen
On the Brink of Disaster
After the Dotcom Crash
The Fuzzy Economy of Cognitive Labor
Infolabor and Precarisation
City of Panic

3. Baroque and Semiocapital
Lumpen Italian
Language and Poison
The Italian Anomaly
Shirkers
Aleatory Value in Neo-Baroque Society
Self Despise

4. Exhaustion and Subjectivity
Precarious Future
Exhaustion: Re-reading Baudrillard
Necronomy
Singularity Insurrection
When Old People Fall in Love
Happy End
After Futurism

Appendix: Interview with Franco Berardi

Bibliography

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.