From State of the Union at Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago.
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Think Big
It is very fashionable right now to be modest, not to think big. Grandeur is considered a metaphysical evil. Me, I am for grandeur, I am for heroism. I am for the affirmation of the thought and the deed.
Alain Badiou interview at Cabinet.
The Empire Locker
If you want a signifier of the changed image of empire, and imperial adventures in foreign lands, think about last Sunday’s six Oscars for The Hurt Locker, including ones for Best Movie and Best Director. The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, said at the end of her acceptance speech, “I’d like to dedicate this to the women [...]
Good Question
Asked by a liberal:
Why have American liberals acquiesced in President Bush’s catastrophic foreign policy? Why have they so little to say about Iraq, about Lebanon, or about reports of a planned attack on Iran? Why has the administration’s sustained attack on civil liberties and international law aroused so little opposition or anger from those who [...]
Obama as LBJ
Why Obama will not release the torture photos: Because, as Andrew Sullivan succinctly puts it, he “now realizes he cannot prosecute Bush’s wars with Bush’s military while exposing Bush’s war crimes.”
Which means, as Chalmers Johnston explains in this interview, he’s likely to end up as another Lyndon B. Johnson, albeit much better mannered.
Serial Killer
The proper Deleuzian paradox is that somethinmg truly New can ONLY emerge through repetition. What repetition repeats is not the way the past “effectively was,” but the virtuality inherent to the past and betrayed by its past actualization. In this precise sense, the emergence of the New changes the past itself, that is, it retroactively [...]
An Idea That Won’t Go Away
In March, the Birbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London organized a symposium “On the Idea of Communism.” Speakers included the usual suspects: Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt, Toni Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek and others. A summary with videos of the proceedings is available here.
Jean-Luc Nancy’s contribution, “Communism, the Word” merits close [...]
The Shit Hits the Fan
Jacques-Alain Miller on the financial crisis (courtesy of lacan.com):
What do we see in this moment of truth about the financial crisis we are in? That it is worthless; that money is like shit! Here is the real which unsettles all discourses. One calls that, politely, “the toxic assets”…
The Classical
Per Martin Puchner in Apr/May Bookforum:
On November 7, three days after Election Day, Alain Badiou gave a lecture at New York University on theater and philosophy. The discussion afterward, conducted in a mixture of French and English, quickly turned to the president elect. “Obama?” Badiou replied. “As actor or as politician?” When the audience laughed, [...]
The Real Swine
Above all, the flu that has changed the life (and death) of our country is a cry to the world to denounce the systematic and merciless pillage that we, millions of Mexicans, have suffered over the last 27 years—years that today have turned us into the source of infection for all of humanity. What [...]