弗朗科·貝拉爾迪，當代作傢，媒體-理論傢和媒體-行動傢。他創立瞭雜誌A/traverso (1975-1981)並且是愛麗絲廣播(Radio Alice)，意大利第一個自由的私人電颱(1976-1978)的工作人員之一。和其他捲入二十世紀七十年代意大利自治運動的人一樣，比弗也嚮巴黎流亡，在那裏，他和菲利剋斯·加塔裏一起從事心理分析領域的工作。在二十世紀八十年代他嚮Semiotexte（紐約），Chimerees（巴黎），Metropoli（羅馬）和Musica 80（米蘭）等雜誌供稿。二十世紀九十年代他齣版瞭Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), 和Felix (Rome, 2001)。現在他是雜誌Derive Approdi的編輯之一，同時也在米蘭藝術學院(Accademia di belle Arti)教授傳播的社會史。他是the e-zine rekombinant.org和telestreet phenomenon的創始人之一。

Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s. This biography gains distinction from its keen insight into Guattari's political practice and from a precise understanding of how this practice relates to the theoretical and conceptual aspects of Guattari's writings, alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Thanks to an approach at once personal and theoretically well informed, Bifo's biography provides a clear and accessible introduction to Guattari's works. This edition also includes a critical introduction and a 2005 interview with Bifo on a range of topics relating Guattari's works to the current political conjuncture.