Archives mensuelles : février 2015

Is Twitter making us stupid? Not necessarily. It all depends on what use you make of the medium. In my own case, I was initially over-enthusiastic and disoriented, which led me to produce a caricature both of my language and … Lire la suite →

I have been a « Feyerabendo-Deleuzian » pluralist for many years, but I am beginning to get interested in Badiou again after long having rejected him, and I am finding his recent ideas quite attractive. I wish to do some work on … Lire la suite →

On ne peut pas parler en dehors des des jeux du langage. Dans le cas de la philosophie, soit la tentative produit des propos incohérents (non-sens),  soit elle s’appuie de fait sur un jeu de langage implicite (suture). Lorsque Bruno … Lire la suite →

DIPLOMACY First let us get rid of a false criterion, that of diplomacy. Latour talks about diplomacy a lot in relation to AIME, and he gives it several incompatible meanings. However, despite the prevalence of this rhetoric there is not … Lire la suite →

Note: I am indebted to a facebook conversation with John Appleby for helping me clarify these ideas. In his reply to Bryan Bannon’s review of ONTO-CARTOGRAPHY, Levi Bryant conflates the concepts of undetermined and indeterminate in Deleuze’s book DIFFERENCE AND … Lire la suite →

Bryan Bannon reviews Levi Bryant’s ONTO-CARTOGRAPHY here. Levi Bryant reviews that review here. I am now reviewing Bryant’s review. So it goes. Bryant seems to think Bannon’s review is « generally positive ». It is in fact quite damning in its content … Lire la suite →

This is the first course in Badiou’s seminar devoted to the elaboration of a projected third volume to BEING AND EVENT, provisionally entitled THE IMMANENCE OF TRUTHS. The seminar begins with a revision of Badiou’s definition of truth: This allows … Lire la suite →

Badiou calls « antiphilosophers » thinkers who have a more open and ample thought than his, then reassures himself by incorporating them into his system. One can praise Badiou for his readiness to take these « antiphilosophers » seriously, despite what remains classical in … Lire la suite →

HEUREUX QUI COMME BADIOU A FAIT UN BEAU VOYAGE Alain Badiou vient de publier un nouveau livre: MÉTAPHYSIQUE DU BONHEUR RÉEL. Il nous raconte son voyage philosophique, qu’il fait commencer avec son premier livre majeur, la THÉORIE DU SUJET, publié … Lire la suite →