Liquidating the Planet
The financial class
that dominates the contemporary scene
has neither attachments to territory
nor to material production,
because its power and wealth
are founded on the total abstraction
of a digitally multiplied finance.
This digital-financial hyper-abstraction
is liquidating
both the living body of the planet
and the social body.
—-Franco “Bifo” Berardi
excerpt The Uprising, On Poetry and Finance
Now that is a thought for Father’s Day. Better the truth, than a linguistic-slight-of-hand denial of the social and material reality of our day to day experience. The question before us: What is to be done?
