{"id":42619,"date":"2025-11-25T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=42619"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:50:26","slug":"thinking-after-i-cant-breathe","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/en\/event\/thinking-after-i-cant-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking \u2018After\u2019: I can\u2019t breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the \u2018Euphoric Criticism\u2019 series, organised by the Grup Obert d\u2019Art Pol\u00edtic<\/a> (GOAP) in collaboration with Museu T\u00e0pies, we have asked Franco \u2018Bifo\u2019 Berardi to talk about the notion of \u2018after\u2019, which seems to have permeated our lives in recent years: pandemics, polarisation, wars and genocides, as well as runaway technology, have reinforced the feeling that the world and its institutions have entered a new era.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like poetry after Auschwitz according to Adorno, like history after the end of history according to Fukuyama, we find ourselves in a disaffected point in time in which we need to learn to think from other reference points: we live in a post-humanism after the rupture between nature and culture, and with a technology that is automating us for the benefit of a techno-fascist elite. Berardi\u2019s latest book, <\/span>Thinking Gaza<\/span><\/i>, confirms this same disaffected and disoriented situation. We do not know where these space and time of the \u2018after\u2019 lie, nor through what body or what politics a humanised way out can materialise. \u2018I can\u2019t breathe\u2019, we say, as victims of violent repression: let us breathe and share political intuitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presentation by Xavier Bassas and Laura Llevadot, members of GOAP.<\/p>\n

The act will conclude with a poetical reading by Mireia Calafell.<\/p>\n

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Franco Berardi<\/b>, known as Bifo since youth, has been a leading figure in left-wing thought in recent decades. In May 1968, he took part in the student revolt at the University of Bologna. He also joined the extra-parliamentary group Potere Operaio, alongside figures such as Toni Negri. During those years of unrest, he founded the magazine <\/span>A\/traverse<\/span><\/i> and participated in the pirate radio station <\/span>Alice<\/span><\/i>. In his works, Berardi abandons orthodox Marxism and draws on the teachings and concepts of psychoanalysis to articulate his critique of post-industrial capitalist society. His latest books are permeated by the idea of the future, of what comes after, of our emotional (in)ability to move beyond an automated and depressing era.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of his numerous books include <\/span>Thinking Gaza: An Essay on Ferocity<\/span><\/i> (English translation forthcoming: Semiotext(e), 2026) and <\/span>Breathing: Chaos and Poetry<\/span><\/i> (Semiotext(e), 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

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