The Slow Cancellation Of The Future. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode and hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed only serves to reveal the cracks in governability the exhibition Riots. Berardi suggests we live in an age of.
The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. Sometime last year I stumbled upon the book Retromania by Simon Reynolds. Slow cancellation of the future which got underway in the 1970s and.
This for Bifo meant the inability to create any media or cultural avant-gardes after the end of punk.
He is referring not to a direction of time but rather a psychological perception. The idea of the slow cancellation of the future captures very well the sense of the ebbing away of a certain conception of cultural time. In his 2011 book After the Future the philosopher Franco Bifo Berardi coined the phrase the slow cancellation of the future by which he meant the grinding disintegration of the widely held belief that things would continue to substantially improve. This for Bifo meant the inability to create any media or cultural avant-gardes after the end of punk.