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Category Archives: Alain Badiou
A Note on the Badiou View of Decision and the Undecidable
In his Larval Subjects post of February 20, 2014, “Let’s Talk About Sets!,” Levi Bryant presents, in apparent agreement, the view of Alain Badiou that: Nothing prevents a decision with respect to what’s undecidable (and notice how closely he parallels Derrida … Continue reading
Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 6: The Thesis of the “Impasse” Which Is the “Reciprocity of The One and Being”
0. I thought it more than nearly time for me to return to the text itself of Badiou’s Being and Event. So return to it I will and to more particularly to the opening paragraph of the first chapter proper … Continue reading
Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 4: Implications of the Badiou Thesis that “Leibniz’s Law” Has Been Refuted
0. Continuing the process of extracting and spelling out, in mini-steps, the theses operative in the thought of Alain Badiou: he tells us, still early on in his Being and Event (translated by Oliver Feltham (London and New York: Continuum … Continue reading
Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 2: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics
0. In my previous post, “Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event”: An Introduction (Or Perhaps Not),” I began the task of cautiously determining, as best I could, just what the theses constituting the philosophy of Alain Badiou might be, a task … Continue reading
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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 1: An Introduction (Or Perhaps Not)
0. I have begun reading Alain Badiou, Being and Event, translated by Oliver Feltham (London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005). One reason for my doing so is that, even though I earned a doctorate from (or at … Continue reading
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