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Alain Badiou, Lecture at the European Graduate School, 2006. video
2007-11-02 20:00:00 Recorded for the EGS Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2006.Badiou discusses the relationships amongst democracy, philosophy, and the Left. Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz
Theology with Alain Badiou
2007-08-22 11:57:00 At the moment, I?m using every spare moment to read the philosophers Slavoj ?i?ek and Alain Badiou ? and they?re blowing my mind.I really wish I had read Badiou sooner. His little book on Saint Paul is an astonishing tour de force ? an atheist reading of Paul which is far more profound (and far more theological) than most recent theology! In particular, I?m wondering whether Badiou?s conceptions of ?the event? and of ?universal singularity? might provide a useful way of understanding Jesus? resurrection. Is anyone else out there interested in Badiou at the moment? And does anyone know of any contemporary theological work which engages with his thought (apart from Milbank)?Anyway, here?s a quote from Saint Paul ? a critique (spot on, in my view) of the concept of ?mediation?:?With Paul, we notice a complete absence of the theme of mediation. Christ is not a mediation; he is not that through which we know God. Jesus Christ is the pure event, and as such is not a function, even were it...
Alain Badiou; "Existence & Death".
2007-08-07 08:22:00 Trans. Nina Power and Alberto Toscano. Orig. published in Discourse 24.1 (2002) 63-73. Access provided by Columbia University.Excerpt:Finally, existence and death, logical parameters of what in a situation, comes to appear, are only thinkable insofar as one passes through the ontological theory of the pure multiple (mathematics of sets) and through the logical theory of the relations of identity (mathematics of categories). Existence and death name the interval of these two superimposed mathematics. Pertaining at once to being, the immutable entanglement of thinkable multiplicities, and to appearance, the power of localization of intensities, to exist and to die are modes of being-there.
text: Alain Badiou, "Un, Multiple, Multiplicité(s)"; French.
2007-05-28 01:51:00 http://multitudes.samizdat.net/-article217.htmlHtml available through Multitudes: une Revue Politique, Artistique et Philosophique.excerpt: Toute multiplicité est l'effectuation conjointe du clos et de l'ouvert, mais son être-multiple « véritable » est du côté de l'ouvert, tout comme pour Bergson l'être authentique du temps est du côté de la durée qualitative, ou tout comme l'essence du coup de dés doit se chercher dans l'unique Lancer primordial, et non dans le résultat numérique affiché sur les dés immobiles. Or l'assignation de l'ensemble au clos, et donc à l'unité numérique, relève d'une pensée courte de l'ensemble, qui seule permet sa prétendue « relève » par l'ouverture différenciante de la vie. Car intuitionné, depuis Cantor, comme multiple de multiples, sans autre point d'arrêt que le vide, égalisant en lui-même l'infini au fini, assurant que toute multiplicité est immanente et homogène, l'ensemble ne saurait être assigné...
text: Alain Badiou, "Un, Multiple, Multiplicité(s)"; French.
2007-05-28 01:51:00 http://multitudes.samizdat.net/-article217.htmlHtml available through Multitudes: une Revue Politique, Artistique et Philosophique.excerpt: Toute multiplicité est l'effectuation conjointe du clos et de l'ouvert, mais son être-multiple « véritable » est du côté de l'ouvert, tout comme pour Bergson l'être authentique du temps est du côté de la durée qualitative, ou tout comme l'essence du coup de dés doit se chercher dans l'unique Lancer primordial, et non dans le résultat numérique affiché sur les dés immobiles. Or l'assignation de l'ensemble au clos, et donc à l'unité numérique, relève d'une pensée courte de l'ensemble, qui seule permet sa prétendue « relève » par l'ouverture différenciante de la vie. Car intuitionné, depuis Cantor, comme multiple de multiples, sans autre point d'arrêt que le vide, égalisant en lui-même l'infini au fini, assurant que toute multiplicité est immanente et homogène, l'ensemble ne saurait être assigné...
text: Alain Badiou, "The Subject of Art".
2007-05-17 09:50:00 http://www.lacan.com/symptom6_a-rticles/badiou.htmlFrom Online Journal The Symptom; Issue Six, Spring 2005.excerpts:... Something of art is a joy forever, for example. What are we saying? I begin by a fundamental distinction between three levels of the signification of being. First, when I say something is, I just say something is a pure multiplicity. 'Something is' and 'something is a multiplicity' is the same sentence. So, it's a level of being qua being. Being as such is pure multiplicity. And the thinking of a pure multiplicity is finally mathematics. The second level is when we are saying something exists. It is the question of existence as a distinct question of the question of being as such. When we are saying something exists we are not speaking of a pure multiplicity. We are speaking of something which is here, which is in a world. So existence is being in a world, being here or, if you want, appearing, really appearing in a concrete situation. That is ‘som...
text: Alain Badiou, "The Subject of Art".
2007-05-17 09:50:00 http://www.lacan.com/symptom6_a-rticles/badiou.htmlFrom Online Journal The Symptom; Issue Six, Spring 2005.excerpts:... Something of art is a joy forever, for example. What are we saying? I begin by a fundamental distinction between three levels of the signification of being. First, when I say something is, I just say something is a pure multiplicity. 'Something is' and 'something is a multiplicity' is the same sentence. So, it's a level of being qua being. Being as such is pure multiplicity. And the thinking of a pure multiplicity is finally mathematics. The second level is when we are saying something exists. It is the question of existence as a distinct question of the question of being as such. When we are saying something exists we are not speaking of a pure multiplicity. We are speaking of something which is here, which is in a world. So existence is being in a world, being here or, if you want, appearing, really appearing in a concrete situation. That is ‘som... |
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