Franco “Bifo” Berardi is a philosopher and media theorist, and was a key figure in the Italian Autonomia movement of the 1970s. He is cofounder of the magazine A/traverso (1975–1981) and of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). In 1994 he organised the international Congress “Cibernauti” (University of Bologna). He published around twenty books, translated in many languages, including English, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese and Russian, such as And: Phenomenology of the End (Semiotexte, Los Angeles, 2014), Heroes, Mass murder and suicide (Verso, London, 2015), Futurability: The age of impotence and the horizon of possibility (Verso, London, 2017), The third Unconscious (Verso, London, 2022), and Chaos and the Automaton (Minnesota, 2025).