Archives mensuelles : novembre 2015

I will be continuing with my summary and commentary of Badiou’s first class for this year, but here I wish to record a feeling of disappointment. The seminar starts out with a very interesting programmatic reorientation in terms of the … Lire la suite →

Some of the most interesting and admirable passages in Badiou’s works are his brilliant readings of a diversity of poems. This first lecture is no exception. Badiou begins his readings with a poem by Cesar Vallejo. He cites an excerpt … Lire la suite →

Badiou’s discussion of the link between poetry and politics implicitly contains a biographical dimension concerning the personal commitments of the poets (and more generally the artists and thinkers). Their doctrinal fidelities and their organisational engagements are to be read poetically, … Lire la suite →

In the first class of his seminar for this year, we have seen that Badiou establishes a parallel between the place of language in poetry and the place of the world in politics. He tells us that this parallel exists because … Lire la suite →

Continuing my summary of the first class of Badiou’s « last seminar« , which took place on Monday October 19. Badiou begins his exploration of the crossings of truth procedures with a crossing that he has already explored on several occasions: the … Lire la suite →

My theoretical work embodied in diverse articles (see my page on academia edu) and on the blog AGENT SWARM proposes an outline, analysis, critical discussion and evaluation of the major recent tendencies in contemporary Continental philosophy (Zizek, Badiou, Laruelle, Lyotard, … Lire la suite →

Alain Badiou, Argument Seminar 2015-2017: “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 … Lire la suite →

Alain Badiou, Argument Seminar 2014-2015: In the seminars of the last two years we have established the following points: The dominant ideology in the contemporary world, that of globalised imperial capitalism, reposes on the consensual acceptance of finitude. In this … Lire la suite →

Alain Badiou, Argument Seminar 2013-2014: « Last year we established these main points: That « immanence of truths » means both that truths are not transcendent, being constructions internal to determinate worlds; and that it is important, to reply to the only important … Lire la suite →

Alain Badiou, Argument Seminar 2012-2013: « In BEING AND EVENT, published in 1988, I proposed a new theory (at least I think it is…) concerning the triplet of being, the subject and truth. It was a matter of showing that, under … Lire la suite →