Franco Berardi carries one of those pseudonyms that prevail. That is why in many places and for almost forty years it has been known simply as "Bifo". In this new book, some of his most active concerns come together: how the subjectivities of the new generations that he calls post-alphabetic (electronic video and cellular connectivity) operate and what influence the pathologies of the contemporary collective mind have on our most urgent political challenges. These and other problems constitute derivations of his sustained and eclectic research, which can hardly be defined according to the disciplinary grids of the social sciences, since it addresses anthropological issues, of psychology and philosophy, while studying and experiencing the new communication technologies. . Even more: according to him, thinking is an activity that operates in a recombinant way, that is, based on always original compositions of signs that are common and available to anyone. His thinking was always marked by a political trajectory that, however, is not too linear either. Along with Toni Negri and Paolo Virno, Bifo is one of the best-known figures in the autonomous experience of Italian operaism that knew its splendor in the mid-1970s. Hence his permanent concern for variations in the forms of production and his special interest in the vicissitudes of cognitive work.