“Non è sempre possibile disertare”. Ri-Pensare dopo Gaza

This conversation revisits Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s Thinking After Gaza almost a year after its publication, confronting Gaza as a point of no return for Western democratic and cultural imagination. The dialogue addresses militarization, genocide, and the collapse of a political vocabulary capable of naming contemporary power. Central is the tension between desertion and resistance, as Gaza exposes desertion not as a strategy but as a privilege. The birth of children as a form of resistance raises a disturbing conflict between collective survival and individual happiness. Berardi frames this impasse within demographic decline, senescence, and the exhaustion of twentieth-century revolutionary categories. The text reads Gaza as a symptom of the terminal crisis of white Western civilization. The conversation remains deliberately unresolved, holding pessimism and resistance in uneasy coexistence.