{"product_id":"futurability-the-age-of-impotence-and-the-horizon-of-possibility-9781784787431","title":"Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics  by one of the sharpest critics of the present We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance  between identity and capital  we seem incapable of producing the radical change that is so desperately needed. Meanwhile the struggle for dominance over the world is a battlefield with only two protagonists: the forces of neoliberalism on one side  and the new order led by the likes of Trump and Putin on the other. How can we imagine a new emancipatory vision  capable of challenging the deadlock of the present? Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination?  In this inspired work  renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi tackles this question through a grounded yet visionary analysis of three concepts fundamental to his understanding of the present: possibility  potency  and power. Characterizing possibility as content  potency as energy  and power as form  Berardi suggests that the road to emancipation unspools from an awareness that the field of the possible is only limited  and not created  by the power structures behind it. Other futures and other worlds are always already inscribed within the present  despite powers attempt to keep them invisible.  Overcoming the temptation to give in to despair or nostalgia  Berardi proposes the notion of futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis a better world lies dormant. In this volume  Berardi presents the most systematic account to date of his philosophy  making a crucial theoretical contribution to the present and future struggle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650414501941,"sku":"ByrdShop_1784787434","price":100.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781784787431.jpg?v=1781795912","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/futurability-the-age-of-impotence-and-the-horizon-of-possibility-9781784787431","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}