Theoretical Writings: Alain Badiou (Continuum Impacts): Alain Badiou (Continuum Impacts)
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... an interesting issue about whether or not the word "communism" should be still used as Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt think or is this word already too much connoted by the Stalin and Mao experience (which would deserve to be called totalitarian collectivism rather than communism). Anyway David Harvey's lectures and classes are more than ever worth listening...
Perverse Egalitarianism (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I think it’s unreasonable to think that the whiny tone of the Humanities will ever change, and while Badiou’s attempt to reverse critique may be a bit of an overstatement, it is worth repeating. Moses Boudourides, discussing the need to prevent ideas and people from being knotted together, quotes Alain Badiou from the “Philosophy in [...]
thoughtstreaming (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
French President Sarkozy said, soon after his depressing election, that "The spirit of May 68 must be done away with once and for all". It was not just the "spectre" of empirical communism, but the very hypothesis (as Alain Badiou puts it) he wanted buried forever.His "renewal" meant to banish the logic of class and the idea that a different collective organization...
radio deleuze (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
'Poetry is not a weak woman...' Alain Badiou..Nor is philosophy , eh .14 yrs since the death of 'the' a Philosopher _________________November 4 , 1995Just a year before his own death Deleuze had written about Guattari : ThatFelix’s work is waiting to be discovered or rediscovered. That is one of the best ways to keep Felix alive. Perhaps the most painful aspects of remembering a...
football is fixed (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... Noam Chomsky on British television. I never saw Baudrillard, Derrida, Lyotard and I don't see Alain Badiou. I saw Professor Slavoj Žižek once, although he was creatively edited, and I have vague memories of John Pilger on ITV in distant decades. Others like Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Michael Moore, in fact, anybody...
