Franco Berardi Bifo: After the Future

In the 20th century Futurism, in its Italian and Russian variant, has become the leading force of "Imagination" and "Project", giving rise to the language of commercial advertising and the language of political agit propaganda. Cyberculture as the last utopia ended in a clash and it has left behind a growing system of virtual life and actual death, of virtual knowledge and actual war. Ever since, the artistic imagination has seemed unable to do away with fear and despair. How can we find a path beyond the limits of the "Dystopian Kingdom"?