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Democracy and Dissapointment
This is an interesting public conversation between Simon Critchley and Alain Badiou that took place on November 15, 2007 at Slought foundation. It features a first session were Simon Critchley outlines his thoughts about democracy and disappointment as presented on his recent book (Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance). His analysis is based on his quasi-Levinasian, Badiouan, Lacanian and Kantian ideas about ethics, politics and philosophy and he is mainly interested in the politics of resistance-military neoliberalism, neo leninism, neo anarchism. In the next session Badiou outlines his thoughts upon 6 phrases that he spotted on Critchley's Book, and tries to relate/contrast them to his philosophical beliefs. Badiou, A., & Critchley, S. (2007). Democracy and disappointment: alain badiou/simon critchley on the politics of resistance, Conversations in Theory. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from http://www.slought.org/content/11385/. The Conversation can be downloaded from this link. Slought Foundation quotes: "In disoriented times, we [...]