Monthly Archives: November 2015

I will be continuing with my summary and commentary of Badiou’s first class for this year, but here I wish to record a feeling of disappointment. The seminar starts out with a very interesting programmatic reorientation in terms of the … Continue reading →

Some of the most interesting and admirable passages in Badiou’s works are his brilliant readings of a diversity of poems. This first lecture is no exception. Badiou begins his readings with a poem by Cesar Vallejo. He cites an excerpt … Continue reading →

Badiou’s discussion of the link between poetry and politics implicitly contains a biographical dimension concerning the personal commitments of the poets (and more generally the artists and thinkers). Their doctrinal fidelities and their organisational engagements are to be read poetically, … Continue reading →

In the first class of his seminar for this year, we have seen that Badiou establishes a parallel between the place of language in poetry and the place of the world in politics. He tells us that this parallel exists because … Continue reading →

Continuing my summary of the first class of Badiou’s “last seminar“, which took place on Monday October 19. Badiou begins his exploration of the crossings of truth procedures with a crossing that he has already explored on several occasions: the … Continue reading →

This blog AGENT SWARM proposes an outline, an analysis and an evaluation of recent tendencies in contemporary Continental philosophy (Zizek, Badiou, Laruelle, Lyotard, Bruno Latour, Bernard Stiegler). It argues for the overall guiding heuristic hypothesis: all of these seemingly incommensurable … Continue reading →

Alain Badiou, Argument Seminar 2015-2017: “This seminar will deal with the creative relation between the finite and the infinite, in the four registers where truths exist: science, art, politics, and love. This is why it will combine conceptual explanations and … Continue reading →