Although he may have received little attention here for some time, this site maintains an active interest in Alain Badiou and the contribution of his work to the rethinking of the revolutionary project. In the following piece, originally appearing in a very interesting issue of Belgrade-based Prelom magazine, Alberto Toscano is concerned to delineate Badiou’s [...]
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Democratic materialism vs. materialist dialectics
We’ve published a couple of beginning engagements (here and here) with Badiou’s important new “big” book, Logics of Worlds, a process continued in the following, which is published here for the first time. In it Jordan Seaver gives an exposition of some of the themes — and some of the problems he finds — in [...]
Badiou on the present situation
Originally published in Le Monde, 13 February 2010. Translated by Alberto Toscano. Reprinted here from the blog infinite thought. The Courage of the Present by Alain Badiou For almost thirty years, the present, in our country, has been a disoriented time. I mean a time that does not offer its youth, especially the youth of [...]
Badiou and politics
From Nina Power’s “Is Badiou a Modernist” – this is the last part, giving an account of Badiou’s thinking on politics, from the late 80s to the present. As preface she says, “This is a slightly longer version of the paper I gave at UEL’s recent workshop on modernism/postmodernism and also contains bits of the [...]
Badiou on the subject of art
One of the continuing foci of Badiou’s philosophical work has been to construct a new conception of the subject, which will not be the Cartesian center of consciousness or the individual psychological subject (etc). This concern is very much present in Logics of Worlds, where he fleshes out (so to speak) the account given in [...]
Badiou and the politicos
I know that this site seems, so far, to be all Badiou, all the time. This is misleading, in that we will be discussing and featuring other thinkers, and other areas besides the philosophical. (See our list of categories to the right — and that list is by no means final.) On the other hand [...]
John Steele: Is Badiou a Maoist?
This is the paper I presented at the Rethinking Marxism conference last weekend (a little more filled out here). I hope we can get some response and some dialogue going here on the issues raised in the paper. To anticipate my conclusion: Is Badiou’s work Maoist? – the answer, I believe, is certainly, yes. Badiou [...]
Feltham on Badiou: a review
We would like to publish book reviews on a regular basis, and we invite contributions. The following is reprinted from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Oliver Feltham, Alain Badiou: Live Theory Reviewed by Todd May Any book about Alain Badiou by Oliver Feltham should be taken seriously. After all, he is the English translator of Badiou’s [...]
An interview with Badiou
The following interview of Alain Badiou was conducted by Nina Power last spring (May 28) when Badiou was in London for the Idea of Communism conference. We borrow it here from the always interesting blog infinite thought (unfortunately I do not know how to recreate the barred zero in the blog’s title). Be sure to [...]
Badiou’s Logics of Worlds: notes & reflections, 1
Reading notes and reflections on Logics of Worlds, 1 By John Steele The appearance in English of Alain Badiou’s new book, The Logics of Worlds, barely three years after its French publication, is noteworthy for anyone who cares deeply about the progress of thinking, and of emancipatory politics – and their interrelation – in the [...]
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