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1) Feyerabend’s « Intelligibility » (1948) anticipates key aspects and arguments articulated in AGAINST METHOD (1976). 2) The argument against the criterion of intelligibility is a precursor to his argument against the stability thesis (so we could call it the « intelligibility thesis »). … Lire la suite →

1) Clarity as immediate intelligibility is based on the ideal of linguistic transparence. 2) Transparence is based on familiarity (of words, grammar, objects and relations): a doxa. 3) Philosophy is singularity breaking with familiarity, using words in unfamiliar ways: unfamiliar … Lire la suite →

Deleuze is dead. He died twenty years ago. If he were alive today he would be interested in a lot of things. In philosophy he would be interested in Bruno Latour, François Laruelle, Bernard Stiegler, Alain Badiou. Deleuze « scholars » are … Lire la suite →

In various places Deleuze expressed the desire to construct a « pop-philosophy ». Deleuze’s demanding books show that to desire to elaborate a pop-philosophy does not mean being committed to a demagogical anti-intellectual hostility to theory, concepts or erudition. A pop-philosophy in … Lire la suite →

For me Feyerabend is very much a living option, and I place him in the forefront of contemporary Continental Philosophers (Badiou, Latour, Laruelle, Stiegler) who are all, each in his own way, pluralists. This is why I defended Feyerabend and … Lire la suite →

Badiou has always lagged behind Deleuze, and in an important sense he still hasn’t caught up fully with DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION and LOGIC OF SENSE. Part of the reason is the twelve year difference of age: Deleuze was born on … Lire la suite →

Abstract: in a very interesting article (the text of a talk given in September 2001), entitled « Existe-t-il quelque chose comme une politique deleuzienne? » (« Does something like a Deleuzian politics exist? »), devoted to the subject of Deleuze and politics, Badiou goes … Lire la suite →

In his first known article, « The Concept of Intelligibility in Modern Physics », published in 1948, Feyerabend attempts to describe a method, that he calls « positivism », that he claims has « fallen into discredit among a large number of philosophers ». The key … Lire la suite →

The theme of the “syntax of the real” is in tension with another Laruellean theme, that of approaching immanence by transcendental impoverishment. Is immanence to be attained only by an absolute break or by gradations on a path? That is … Lire la suite →

« This seminar will deal with the creative relation between the finite and the infinite, in the four registers where truths exist: science, art, politics, and love. This is why it will combine conceptual explanations and examples directly drawn, for example, … Lire la suite →