弗朗科·贝拉尔迪，当代作家，媒体-理论家和媒体-行动家。他创立了杂志A/traverso (1975-1981)并且是爱丽丝广播(Radio Alice)，意大利第一个自由的私人电台(1976-1978)的工作人员之一。和其他卷入二十世纪七十年代意大利自治运动的人一样，比弗也向巴黎流亡，在那里，他和菲利克斯·加塔里一起从事心理分析领域的工作。在二十世纪八十年代他向Semiotexte（纽约），Chimerees（巴黎），Metropoli（罗马）和Musica 80（米兰）等杂志供稿。二十世纪九十年代他出版了Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), 和Felix (Rome, 2001)。现在他是杂志Derive Approdi的编辑之一，同时也在米兰艺术学院(Accademia di belle Arti)教授传播的社会史。他是the e-zine rekombinant.org和telestreet phenomenon的创始人之一。

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.