{"product_id":"the-second-coming-paperback-softback-9781509534845","title":"The Second Coming (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509534845","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFranco Berardi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509534845, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e18.8 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.159 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have entered the gateway to the apocalypse. This theological concept is the best metaphor to describe the world in which we are already living. Chaos is all around us: political folly, economical delirium, ecological catastrophe, intellectual cynicism, technological simulation of life. This is what Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi suggests in this wry, dark, disconcerting but also brilliant and invigorating journey through the main events that we have witnessed in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne century after the Communist revolution, the very idea that the world could be changed for the better seems dead once and for all. Every time that a new change occurs nowadays, it seems to be a change for the worse. But the fact that nothing can save us any more shouldn’t be seen as a form of fatality or a reason for surrender. On the contrary, if our world is dead, then the space is open for another to appear – a world where apocalypse can shake us out of our zombie-like contemporary existence. The second coming of Communism will have nothing to do with 1917. Apocalypse has to be conceived of as a metaphor, and Communism is a metaphor too: the metaphor of the possible deployment of the potentials of the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e0. How to\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to deal with chaos\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot action but interpretation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack out\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. In retrospect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFifty years after sixty-eight\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA hundred years after the Soviet revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs fascism back?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Apocalypse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe expanding sphere of nothingness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Empire of Chaos and the Embedded Order Guns, opioids and reason\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrumping truth in the empire of fake \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuschwitz on the beach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Is there life after the apocalypse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470039839000,"sku":"9781509534845","price":14.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509534845.jpg?v=1785629338","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-second-coming-paperback-softback-9781509534845","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}