Sergio Ferrarese
Biographic Data
| ID | 6768201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Ferrarese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrarese |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARESE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chaos and Automation
This volume brings together Franco “Bifo” Berardi's writings for E-flux, his main English-language publisher since 2010. Covering more than ten years, these essays examine major global developments since the 2008 financial crisis—including European austerity, the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, Anonymous, the papacy of Pope Francis, Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump-Biden era, the US Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine—whi…
Call Center Blues
Grounded in theories of workerism (operaismo) and post-workerism (autonomia and post-autonomia), this paper examines how Federico Rizzo’s Fuga dal call center and, more extensively, Paolo Virzì’s Tutta la vita davanti, both films from 2008, register the shift from material to immaterial labor in the twenty-first century. In both films, the call center replaces the factory as the space of labor; it is the privileged site where relational and affec…
Whose Life? Whose Body? Sovereignty and the Early Modern Subject in Radicati’s Philosophical Dissertation upon Death
This essay examines the contemporary debate on suicide and euthanasia through a controversial pamphlet written in London in 1732 by the Italian philosopher, Alberto Radicati di Passerano. In Radicati’s Philosophical Dissertation upon Death, suicide is defended as an act of individual freedom against royal and religious attempts to control citizen’s self-determination. By drawing from Montesquieu and the English deists, and connecting with the anc…
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Whose Life? Whose Body? Sovereignty and the Early Modern Subject in Radicati’s Philosophical Dissertation upon Death
This essay examines the contemporary debate on suicide and euthanasia through a controversial pamphlet written in London in 1732 by the Italian philosopher, Alberto Radicati di Passerano. In Radicati’s Philosophical Dissertation upon Death, suicide is defended as an act of individual freedom against royal and religious attempts to control citizen’s self-determination. By drawing from Montesquieu and the English deists, and connecting with the anc…
Call Center Blues
Grounded in theories of workerism (operaismo) and post-workerism (autonomia and post-autonomia), this paper examines how Federico Rizzo’s Fuga dal call center and, more extensively, Paolo Virzì’s Tutta la vita davanti, both films from 2008, register the shift from material to immaterial labor in the twenty-first century. In both films, the call center replaces the factory as the space of labor; it is the privileged site where relational and affec…
Chaos and Automation
This volume brings together Franco “Bifo” Berardi's writings for E-flux, his main English-language publisher since 2010. Covering more than ten years, these essays examine major global developments since the 2008 financial crisis—including European austerity, the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, Anonymous, the papacy of Pope Francis, Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump-Biden era, the US Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine—whi…
Art (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Biopower (1 work) · Blues (1 work) · Center (category theory (1 work) · Chaos, Complexity, and Education (1 work) · Collective intelligence (1 work)