The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts
Franco Berardi in his work And: A Phenomenology of the End remarks that the mutation and shift through which our world is going is through the conjunctive ‘and’ of “the dissolution of the political order inherited from Modernity, and the vanishing of the rational foundations of Western philosophy; and, that there is both a synchronic and diachronic aspect to this shift:
This shift is diachronic as it happens as a transition and extends over the span of various human generations, transforming throughout time cognitive patterns, social behavior and psychological expectations. But I want to investigate as well the synchronic frame in which the shift happens: I want to describe composition, conflict and coevolution of different psycho-cultural regimes that simultaneously approach, collide, interweave in the process of globalization.1
Berardi has followed Guattari’s diagramatic notions in his last few works, trying to find a viable way of integrating both Deleuze and Guattari’s work…
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