No idea how to rate this; I want to agree with so much of it on a gut level, but then the text doesn't provide much in the way of resources to back up its own arguments, or arguments I might want to make on its behalf.

Everything is crumbling---it's crystal clear.

Read a certain wedge of this at a Bernie Sanders rally in Louisville. The candidate did not inspire me that night. My wife and I had already voted for him that morning. The ideas that Berardi tosses about in this text felt likewise inert. I recognize the idea that theory wants to be sexy, to stir with a poetic flourish. That said, I find the idea that the youth of the West have been stripped of possibility, of a Future -- well, that is just fatuous. This limiting condition or situation has to be situated against the Possibility of the Promise -- the ideological crux of Left or Right is a field where actualization can occur. Summarizing, if anyone has been robbed, they had to have beforehand, in this situation the "having" denotes possibility -- whether that be entrepreneurial or emancipatory. Can serio-capitalism strip such away from the human condition?

Now the glory of the future is over. We no longer trust the future, as the futurists--and the moderns, in general--did.

The arguments were salvaged in the concluding chapters, a point where Benjamin's Mystical Violence is flirted with and just as defiantly Sloterdijk's Kynicism is soundly rejected in favor of the Ironist's pose. A social movement, at the end of the day, should use irony as semiotic insolvency, as a mechanism of disentangling language, behavior, and action from the limits of the symbolic debt. ( )