Alain Badiou -classic or intellectual suicide?

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I'm thinking of reading Badiou and so want to know: is he worth getting into? Ie: Alain Badiou -classic or intellectual suicide?

― RR (restandrec), Sunday, 22 May 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

dissensus seems to have a lot to say about him.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I noticed that too, so I looked him up at my university library. Every single one of his books was already signed out. It occurred to me that this might be a sign that I was missing out on something good, so I went out and bought a copy of Infinite Thought (which is intended as an introduction). Badiou's an absolute pleasure to read—very fresh, practical, and topical without ever compromising his plan for the reinvigoration of philosophy.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah it's funny how he's so hot right now. My uni library seems to have the same problem with Badiou books being all borrowed all the time.

I saw a really bolshy lefty at uni reading him while waiting for the bus, and have concluded on the basis of this scanty evidence that he's the new darling of the tertiary crowd that still actually go to protests and the like. I'm waiting for Socialist Alternative on campus to start putting up posters advertising lunchtime discussions along the lines of "Revolution Today: Alain Badiou and Future Socialism"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Distortion of evidence to accommodate one's own self-interest - a typical reactive process undertaken by Stasist digital Kapitalist slaves.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen him referred to on dissensus but know nothing whatever of his beliefs. like zizek he seems to be a pauline leninist or something equally of our times. the only ref i've seen outside the blogosphere said something like 'like baudrillard, he's made a fat packet out of theorising situationism'. he was a maoist (ie anti-sit) in the late 60s.

but i'm all ears really.

― N_RQ, Monday, 6 June 2005 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

YR A PRODUCT OF DISCOURSE

― MARKELLO, Monday, 6 June 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to everyone who helped -I'm off to look for Infinite Thought now.

― RR (restandrec), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What I wrote earlier sounds like a Pitchfork review of Alain Badiou ...

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

what has Badiou been up to these last two weeks?

also, anyone familiar with Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy, ed. Hallward?

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

LIKE ERIKA BADU HE'S A PRODUCT OF HIS OWN DISCOURS

― MARKELLO CARLTON, Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

"what has Badiou been up to these last two weeks?"

dunno, but rather self-regardingly he has called french philosophy of the 1940s to 1990s (LOL alain) one of the triumvirate of greatness alongside ancient greece and enlightenment germany, in this month's new left review.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Tout le monde pense que les fondements du communisme ont détruit toute pensée militante. Or, la thèse que soutient ce texte est que ce processus fut strictement inverse : La subjectivité militante était périmée ou inactive bien avant l'effondrement du part-Etat. A partir de là, l'auteur pose l'ancienne philosophie politique que portait ce militantisme comme devant être remplacée par une philosophie du droit qui se doit d'être au coeur de la question de l'Etat aujourd'hui. Il dessine la désétatisation de la vérité comme programme de pensée. Lors de la première édition de ce livre, Philippe Petit écrivait dans l'Evénement du jeudi : " Dans ce court opuscule écrit à la manière d'un poème philosophique, Alain Badiou fustige le " louche Mitterrand " et le " capitalo-parlementarisme " dans une prose aux accents rimbaldiens. Sur les ruines du communisme, l'histoire a repris ses droits ; mais le philosophe reprend ses marques... Un essai discutable, écrit à la hache, mais d'une vigueur et d'un courage irréprochable ".

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

ah, arrogance. i guess that's not an evil, is it?

so i wonder, do the riots qualify as an event? what truth(s) did they reveal? who will dedicate themselves to these truth(s)?

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

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