A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics by one of the sharpest critics of
the presentWe 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 power's 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
