"I want a president"

“The century that trusted in the future” started to dissolve in 1977, says Franco “Bifo” Berardi.1 Since then society has fragmented to the point that it has become un-recomposable. Recomposition means people finding a common ground for understanding and acting together for a common goal. “Human beings perform productive actions, but they are not conscious actors of what they are doing, and seem unable to join their feelings and thought in a common space of consciousness.”2 Since we are unable to act together, the future has become something that happens to us. A kind of unavoidable catastrophe that we cannot oppose in any way. Utopias turned into something of yore. Even in the leftist movement, “revolution” has ceased to be something to be taken seriously. Revolution is unpossible [sic] to imagine today. Kerry James Marshall, born in 1955, is a member of the last generation that trusted in the future. In the New York Public Library I saw Keeping the Culture, his futuristic depiction…