Pietro Bianchi

Join our reading group on Joan Copjec’s new book “Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran”!!

Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 2 - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reflects on the unlikely endurance of the image, in the second of two reports from Cannes 2025.

My second and final dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social This time on Ari Aster,Spike Lee, Christian Petzold, Fatima Hassouna, the Tabor Collective, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Bi Gan. See you next year Cannes. You’ve been good this time

www.e-flux.com/notes/673042...

Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 1 - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reflects on the “festival film,” in the first of two reports from Cannes 2025.

My first dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social : some initial reflections on the festival, along with thoughts on Mascha Schilinski’s and Pedro Pinho’s films. So far, so good but more to come early next week www.e-flux.com/notes/671976...

Tomorrow at 2PM at @unisr.bsky.social in Milan and online (DM for the link). In italian

entry in the Duke University Press fall catalogue for upcoming special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly

FILMING CAPITAL

special issue of SAQ, coming in fall, thanks to excellent editors @pietrobianch1.bsky.social and @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social

some of everything you ever wanted to know about cinema and phantasmagoria, migrant worker documentaries, hollywood finance, and of course, HEISTS !

cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!

I agree 100%. But precisely because of that, exploitation is not about the relation between individual worker and individual capitalist: it concerns the entirety of the cycle of accumulation. Even if workers fulfilled their part of their purpose of the capitalist, doesn't mean value is produced

If exploit means used for one's own purpose - yes, if exploit means using lab pow to produce value, than if a comm is not sold, no value is produced. Doesn’t mean everything’s cool for workers: my point is we need a non phenomenological idea of exploit to understand its specificity in capitalism

ETICA & POLITICA
ETHICS & POLITICS
XXVII, 2025, 1
www.units.it/etica
First of two Symposia I am co-editing with #StefanoBreda on #MichaelHeinrich #ScienceofValue Italian edition
Bianchi; Cesarale; Consolati; Engster; Munro; Redolfi Riva & Taccola; Schimmenti; Turano; Turchetto; Vertova; Heinrich

I contributed a piece on a sexy topic like “abstract labor” on a symposium on Michael Heinrich “Science of Value” in the latest issue of Ethics&Politics sites.units.it//etica/2025_...

In Praise of a Dinosaur: Toni Negri - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reviews the first volume of Antonio Negri’s autobiography.

Today on @eflux.bsky.social Notes I wrote about “Story of a Communist,” the first of three volumes of Toni Negri’s autobiography that has just been published in English. It is also a tribute, a little over a year after his passing. Viva Toni!

www.e-flux.com/notes/663953...

On April 11 in Gainesville, FL
Organized by me and @alialtafmian.bsky.social
Poster generously provided by Cabot Cove

@sbrodsky.bsky.social making me blush

2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi This is "2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi" by e-flux on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.

vimeo.com/1058822880/7...

at an academic conference in columbus OH now. few hundred registered participants, 20% are not presenters. they are social service providers, endocrinologists, amazon wearhouse workers, here to soak up knowledge.

people hunger for ideas, meaning, togetherness.

fight for the freedom to learn!

In person and in Italian, but if you’re around Bologna (I’ll be online from Gainesville)

Pietro Bianchi: The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age - Events - e-flux A lecture by Pietro Bianchi on the framework of the optical unconscious in our contemporary digital universe.

I'll give a talk at e-flux titled "The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age". It's on Feb 27 at 7pm. If you're in New York hit me up
www.e-flux.com/events/65204...