There’s a new wind blowing across this globalized world, from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Spain to Occupy Wall Street. How do the theoretical investigations of this site relate to this, to what’s new and emerging? This question of the emergence of novelty, of understanding this very changing world so as to help to [...]
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What is Badiou’s communism?
The following essay by J. Ramsey is expanded from remarks delivered at the Platypus Society Convention in April, as part of a panel on Badiou and Post-Maoism: Marxism and Communism Today. Other speakers were Chris Cutrone of Platypus (whose paper can be found here), Mike Ely of Kasama (whose remarks can be found on Kasama), [...]
J. Ramsey: Thoughts on Badiou’s HardTalk Interview
The following contribution was written as commentary on an interview philosopher Alain Badiou did with the BBC. The interview is a relatively accessible statement of his views on reclaiming communism — made for the broad television audience. We are reposting the video, and then below that, J.’s remarks. HardTalk with Alain Badiou: Some Thoughts on [...]
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