Franco Berardi has been known as "Bifo" since he was accused of being one of the main authors of the "creative insurrection" in Bologna in 1977. The search for a possible liberation of life from the slavery of wage labor spans half a century of his theoretical activity: from the articles of the 1970s, published in fanzines and self-produced pamphlets, to the dystopian prophecies of the first decades of the 21st century, and including essays on the implications of the expansion of the Internet in the 1990s.

As could not be otherwise in "selected works," the writings gathered in this volume address a multitude of issues: technology, communication, poetry, art, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis, political theory, geopolitics, etc. What unifies this diverse range of themes, however, is that Bifo's work is always animated by a constant passion for ethical and political rebellion. Starting from the observation that technology and knowledge reduce necessary labor time, the author develops an original vision of technical, anthropological, and political processes. Despite the regression that neoliberalism has wrought in world history and the fall into new forms of identitarianism and postmodern fascism, Bifo always shows a possibility of emancipation.