News and stories about Alain Badiou
International Journal of Zizek Studies – Call For Graduate Student ...
This special graduate student issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies will explore the relationship between Slavoj Žižek's and Alain Badiou's work. It asks, how can we combine Žižek's and Badiou's work? ...
Posted 07/30/2010 at 03:33PM EST
GreenHouse: "Do we really get Romans? A little Badiou and Žižek ...
The nomenclature on the main can be traced back to the writings of Gilles Deleuze (though ultimately as far back as the middle and late Heidegger) But these words have become staples in the work of Alain Badiou and Slavoy Žižek. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 02:28PM EST
A critique of the RCP/U.S.A. on Alain Badiou » The Last Marxist
The RCP's critique of the latter-day and post-Maoist “communist” Alain Badiou's conception of “radical, anarchic equality” is a part of their program of demonstrating “How Communism Goes Beyond Equality and Why it Must. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 05:00AM EST
In Defense of a 'Lost Cause' « Guerrilla Warfare
Alain Badiou puts it in a nice way when he states 'that sometimes victory, revolutionary in this case, is always subject to a paving of the path toward repetition and restoration of a counter-revolutionary order' and this is the cycle ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 09:11PM EST
Theory of the Subject
Theory of the Subject”, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying many of the foundations for his magnum opus, “Being and Event”. Here Badiou seeks to provide a theory of the ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 01:22AM EST
Principia Dialectica Magazine - » Blog Archive » Badiou is a ...
Verso must be really in the dolldrums if they have to wheel in Alain Badiou. Perry Anderson is in good company, Tariq Ali also, and Robin Blackburn.. What a Medusa raft, driftin' on the high theoretical seas, they are all lost. ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 11:14PM EST
Badiou's Communist Hypothesis « All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski
Unwilling to neglect the stigmatizing burden of historical failure that communism has come to bear, Alain Badiou has set out to formulate a hypothesis that will resurrect and reinvigorate the communist ideal. ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 02:27PM EST
The Communist Hypothesis at Sanhati
Unwilling to neglect the stigmatizing burden of historical failure that communism has come to bear, Alain Badiou has set out to formulate a hypothesis that will resurrect and reinvigorate the communist ideal. ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 02:22PM EST
Cordite Poetry Review » Ali Alizadeh reviews John Mateer
To use concepts developed by the contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou, by naming the voids in the situation of Australia, that is, by turning his attention to things that are conspicuously absent within given Australian settings, ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 01:37PM EST
Second Manifesto for Philosophy by Alain Badiou - Booklete
Twenty years ago, Alain Badiou's first Manifesto for Philosophy rose up against the all-pervasive proclamation of the "end" of philosophy. In lieu of this problematic of the end, he put forward the watchword: "one more step". ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 12:00AM EST
Badiou on Contemporary Obscurantism « Te Ipu Pakore
Alain Badiou, “The Courage of the Present/Contemporary Obscurantism”. The Symptom 11 (Spring 2010), orig. from Le Monde 14 Feb. 2010. We're living in a disoriented time: we're told the previous age offers us no possibilities; ...
Posted 07/24/2010 at 09:14PM EST
Alain Badiou – Theory of the Subject
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Posted 07/24/2010 at 06:22PM EST
july 23 2010 - bookforum.com / omnivore
From the latest issue of The Symptom, Alain Badiou on the courage of the present and contemporary obscurantism; Slavoj Zizek on Deleuze and the Lacanian Real and the neighbor in burka; Marina Lusa on a very natural woman; Pierre-Gilles ...
Posted 07/23/2010 at 01:00PM EST
Deleuze and Badiou–The Debate of 21st Century Philosophy
The greatest living French philosopher, Alain Badiou, passionately articulates one of the most striking claims made in philosophy today.[1] This claim is as simple as it is radical: Truth happens in a material event that fundamentally ...
Posted 07/21/2010 at 08:58PM EST
Deleuze and Badiou–The Debate of 21st Century Philosophy « Objet ...
The greatest living French philosopher, Alain Badiou, passionately articulates one of the most striking claims made in philosophy today.[1] This claim is as simple as it is radical: Truth happens in a material event that fundamentally ...
Posted 07/21/2010 at 08:58PM EST
Clayton Crockett on the Deleuze/Badiou debate–Philosophy in the ...
The greatest living French philosopher, Alain Badiou, passionately articulates one of the most striking claims made in philosophy today.[1] This claim is as simple as it is radical: Truth happens in a material event that fundamentally ...
Posted 07/21/2010 at 08:58PM EST
Slavoj Zizek interview in Der Spiegel – with Alain Badiou and ...
Slavoj Zizek interview in Der Spiegel – with Alain Badiou and Antonio Negri. July 19, 2010 by versouk. A major interview with Slavoj Zizek and report on the Communism conference in Berlin in Der Spiegel: ...
Posted 07/19/2010 at 09:26AM EST
Revolution Books Chicago
Avakian wrote the following: In the polemic against Alain Badiou's political philosophy in the online theoretical journal Demarcations, the following concise indictment is made of Badiou's ultimate reformism, and of reformism in ...
Posted 07/17/2010 at 06:18PM EST
A Post-Communist Manifesto « All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski
Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek, Toni Negri and Alain Badiou, have argued that communism, a society based on equality, is now proved to be the only alternative to the chaos of capitalism. Building on this discussion, the renowned art ...
Posted 07/16/2010 at 08:48AM EST
Hypothesis on the Numbered Treaties « Guerrilla Warfare
An epochal political project on this scale needs to be based upon a concrete 'Idea' (as Alain Badiou would put it) and that Idea needs to be updated and radical. A mass collectivism of First Nations peoples is the only answer to the ...
Posted 07/16/2010 at 05:14AM EST
Trouble Looming over Burqa Ban | Robert Sharp
The philosopher Alain Badiou has a great formulation: Basically put: these girls or women are oppressed. Hence, they shall be punished. It's a little like saying: “This woman has been raped: throw her in jail.” ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 12:42PM EST
Trouble Looming over Burqa Ban | Robert Sharp
The philosopher Alain Badiou has a great formulation: Basically put: these girls or women are oppressed. Hence, they shall be punished. It's a little like saying: “This woman has been raped: throw her in jail.” ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 12:41PM EST
Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
In many ways, according to Badiou, this widespread aversion to communism, and even socialism, resembles a return to a 1950s-style liberal anti-communism more busy dogmatically hunting out the roots of totalitarianism than taking an ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 03:36AM EST
The Voice Imitator: Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010). Since the peak of radicalism in the middle of the 1970s, there has been a “resigned surrender,” a new “deference towards the capitalo-parliamentarian or 'Western order. ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 03:36AM EST
The Voice Imitator: Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010). Since the peak of the radical movements of the 1960 and 70s, there has been a “resigned surrender,” a new “deference towards the capitalo-parliamentarian or 'Western order. ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 03:36AM EST
The Voice Imitator: Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
Alain Badiou: The Communist Hypothesis (2010). Since the peak of radicalism in the middle of the 1970s, there has been a “resigned surrender,” a new “deference towards the capitalo-parliamentarian or 'Western order. ...
Posted 07/14/2010 at 03:36AM EST
Integral Options Cafe: Slavoj Zizek: The World's Hippest Philosopher
I agree with [French philosopher] Alain Badiou, who has a nice theory that with all this internet dating we are returning to premodern procedures of arranged marriage. He found in France a dating agency advertisement which promised 'We ...
Posted 07/13/2010 at 10:41PM EST
The Communist Hypothesis - gigapedia.com
Alain Badiou's formulation of the “communist hypothesis” has traveled around the world since it was first aired in early 2008, in his book The Meaning of Sarkozy. The hypothesis is partly a demand to reconceptualize communism after the ...
Posted 07/13/2010 at 07:00AM EST
'The Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West'
He finds it irritating that Alain Badiou, the French Maoist, will be making the introductory remarks. And is it true, he wonders, that Toni -- Antonio Negri, a former sympathizer with the Red Brigades terrorist group -- is also coming, ...
Posted 07/13/2010 at 02:00AM EST
the church and postmodern culture: conversation: Do we really get ...
The nomenclature on the main can be traced back to the writings of Gilles Deleuze (though ultimately as far back as the middle and late Heidegger) But these words have become staples in the work of Alain Badiou and Slavoy Žižek. ...
Posted 07/12/2010 at 02:15PM EST
real economics: Now THIS is depressing
He finds it irritating that Alain Badiou, the French Maoist, will be making the introductory remarks. And is it true, he wonders, that Toni -- Antonio Negri, a former sympathizer with the Red Brigades terrorist group -- is also coming, ...
Posted 07/12/2010 at 09:53AM EST