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During this open session, Franco Bifo Berardi will mobilise his current reflections on the "becoming nothing" of the human race. The talk will explore desertion, collective escape and the abandonment of the productive, reproductive and consumer fields.

With the help of the research group contraimaginario (post pandemico) / Antoine Silvestre, Jesús Arpal-Moya and Nancy Garín Guzmán, the talk will escape from the traditional lecture format to integrate elements of the game *Teng-, currently being developed by the group.

Activity in the framework of the programme (create) Situations

Franco Berardi was part of the student movement of '68, militant of the Marxist group Potere operaio and animator of the first European free radio station, Radio Alice.
In 1975 he created A/traverso, the last magazine in the history of the Vanguardia, and the first expression of punk culture.
His latest book is DISERTATE, which will be published in autumn in Spanish.

Contraimaginaris Postpandèmics is one of the research groups in residence at the Santa Mònica arts centre in 2022 and 2023. It is formed by Jesús Arpal Moya (La Caníbal cooperative), Nancy Garín and Antoine Silvestre. Throughout 2022 they listen, study, propagate, problematise and hypothesise alternative imaginaries in the official narratives produced in the field of representation (cultural, social and political) of the Covid 19 crisis and the prolonged pandemic (post-pandemic).

They are interested in the multiple displacements, gaps and adjustments provoked by the pandemic, as lights for new political imaginaries that empower possible futures. What are the differences between the pandemic as a persistent narrative and covid-19 as a historical event? What space is there for the self-management of history/s, health and knowledge in the narrative of the pandemic? Postcovid, precovid, anticovid, subcovid, supercovid, simcovid? What imaginaries opened up during the pandemic context remain or are disappearing from collective memories? Can we trace in this erasure some shifts in the dialectic between local regime and global hegemony? It is an artistic and non-academic research, so they alternate different tactics to feel-think-share-act. They meet on Mondays from 5pm in the Mòniques Space at Santa Mònica.