Author of The Soul at Work and After the Future, Franco Berardi Bifo
(born 1949) is one of today's most articulate and prominent
anti-capitalism theorists. Like many others involved with the 1960s
Autonomia movement in Italy (such as Antonio Negri and Mario Tronti),
Berardi moved to Paris, where he worked and studied with the French
philosopher and psychotherapist Felix Guattari, in the field of
schizoanalysis. Skizo-Mails is a collection of Berardi's aphoristic
and diaristic correspondence that combines the political and the poetic
in its consideration of our present plight. "What invention will be able
to call humans out of the abyss? Who will be able to gather thoughts and
emotions and solidarity?" Berardi asks, in one letter. This publication
is the first in Errant Bodies' new Doormats series, dedicated to
rethinking the contemporary political sphere and demanding a focused and
attentive presence and readership.