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Bifo was fifty times smarter than X. Even the Russians realise it now.
In Bologna’s X period happiness issued an ultimatum to the more Soviet-inclined of the local Communist aparatchiks. They saw the desired escape route indicated by Bifo in the A/cross broadsheet merely as a sordid plot, and got pasted with the most turbulent revolt since the May uprising in France. Bifo was fifty times more modern that the Ys, but the Ys thought they were the most modern. Bologna’s Ys read the French philosophs Deleuze and Guattari without a clue as to their meaning, and then became petty lawyers, go-fors and creative types, swallowed up by a modernity governed by mind-soothing drugs and by Craxi. Bifo knows that the two Frenchmen got it all right and will always come in handy. Bifo’s fifty times more predatory than Z, though only very few know this. Z is the period of the exploited who are happy to be “friends” on Facebook while the killers of laissez-faire sack their lands. In the Z period Bifo keeps re-doing A/cross, calls the broadsheet whatever name crosses his mind and the Frenchmen keep popping up in it. Every art museum in Europe vies for the current version of the broadsheet as a magic charm. Dose is the latest instalment under the apse wall of the church of San Domenico. It’s no accident that during the X period citizen Bifo lived a stone’s throw from San Domenico in Via Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, count, adventurer and cosmopolite genius. Bifo and Marsili share a character trait: a root without head or tail.
Already in 1726 Marsili called it rhizome.