Thursday, June 9, 2022

Bifo on [Gun] Violence

 Today, the psychotic framework of hyper-stimulation and constant mobilization of nervous energy is pushing people, especially suggestible young people, socially marginalized and precarious, to a different kind of acting out: an explosive demonstration of energy, a violent mobilization of the body, which culminates in the aggressive, murderous explosion of the self.”

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide, Verso, 2015, p. 56.