From now until April 30, a one-year subscription to e-flux Index includes a complimentary copy of Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s Chaos and the Automaton.
e-flux Index is a working archive of contemporary thought across art, film, philosophy, architecture, and criticism. Subscriptions to e-flux Index run for four issues, beginning with the current issue, and include a complimentary digital download of each issue. The current issue, e-flux Index #8, features 106 contributions from 101 artists, critics, filmmakers, theorists, and architects.
Berardi’s Chaos and the Automaton (2025) offers a parallel diagnostic of the present: essays written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis that examine the psychic and material transformations of contemporary capitalism. Written in close proximity to unfolding events, the texts attempt to “run ahead of the dynamics of the disaster” in order to grasp the emerging shape of the psycho-sphere.
Together, Index and Berardi’s essays form a compact reference library for thinking through our current historical conjuncture. Purchase your subscription online here.