SON[I]A #141. Franco Berardi
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased excerpts from our interview with Franco Berardi, in which the philosopher talks about his participation in two telecommunicational activism projects: Radio Alice and Telestreet.
Bifo talks about mass killings in relation to cinema, mental health, neuroplasticity, friendship, irony and, ultimately, hope.
RADIOACTIVITY looks into two seminal free radio stations – Radio Alice in Bologna and Radio Tomate in Paris – as singular case studies in which self-management, decentralised organisation and DIY coincide. The mini-series is an introduction to the free radio movement that sprung up in several countries in the seventies as a way of giving voice to actors who were outside the media establishment: an alternative to the dominant narrative that can also be seen as precursor of the horizontal rhizome structure of digital networks.
Interview with the writer, philosopher and political and cultural activist Franco Berardi on citizen resistance in the face of the crisis that currently hangs over Europe and possible strategies for insurrection.
Interview with Franco Berardi "Bifo" and extract from the sound work by Marcel Broodthaers "Interview with a Cat", 1970.