To Tune Into A Shared Vibration
The center cannot hold,
and things have fallen apart, detached
from their meaning.
The revelation of the century
is the devastating spiral of abstraction and nihilism;
abstraction of work from activity,
abstraction of goods from usefulness,
abstraction of time from sensuousness.Abstraction has detached the epidermis of language
from the flesh of the linguistic body…
As deregulated predatory capitalism
is destroying the future of the planet
and of social life,
poetry is going to play a new game;
the game of reactivating the social body.
In the streets of Europe
and in the whole Mediterranean basin,
young people are revolting
against the brutal exploitation of their time and intelligence,
and against the financial abstraction
which is devastating social life.They are the precarious generation,
obliged to accept exploitation and low wages,
depleted of necessary resources for their education,
promised a future of the endless
repetition of a meaningless act of sacrifice
on the altar of debt.They are simultaneously the first
connected generation,
the first generation of Internet natives.
They are not only protesting
against the gruesome effects
of neoliberal rule,
they are also looking for a new meaning of things,
activity, and love.The global deterrorialization of financial capitalism
has spread precariousness, psychic fragility,
and desolidarization.Therefore the current precarious insurrection
questions the rhythmic disturbance
provoked by semio-capital,
and tries to overcome
our existing inability
to tune into a shared vibration.
—Franco “Bifo” Berardi
excerpt, The Uprising,On Poetry and Finance
