alain badiou

20 04, 2009

the symptom 10 – spring 2009

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:26+02:00April 20th, 2009|art, music, philosophy, politics, tutorial|0 Comments

Spring 2009 - “Universalism versus globalization. This at least will be our US chapter - to be read as United Symptoms,” Jacques-Alain Miller http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/ Contents: Jacques-Alain Miller - Another Lacan Jacques-Alain Miller - Action of the Structure Jean-Luc Nancy - Interview with Jacques Derrida Alain Badiou - On a Finally Objectless Subject Shariar Vaghfipour - A Monster Found Everywhere Bruce Fink - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Eric Laurent - Psychoanalysis and Science Slavoj Zizek - My Own Private Austria Jamieson Webster - Drawing the Impossible Dylan Evans - Science and Truth Thomas Svolos - Ordinary Psychosis Charles Sheperdson - A Pound of Flesh Pierre-Gilles Guéguen - The Short Session Maire Jaanus - Inhibition, Heautoscopy, Movement Richard Klein - Lacan and Gödel Raphael Rubinstein - Three Poems Maria Cristina Aguirre - The Refusal of the Language of the Other Kirsten Hyldgaard - Sex as Fantasy and Sex as Symptom Bernard [...]

19 11, 2008

Lacanian Ink 32 – FALL 2008

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 19th, 2008|philosophy|1 Comment

Josefina Ayerza To resume again… http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html Jacques-Alain Miller A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html Jacques-Alain Miller The Other Side of Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html Alain Badiou The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html Lilia Mahjoub The Image in the Fantasy http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html Massimo Recalcati Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html Jean-Luc Nancy Strange Foreign Bodies http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html Slavoj Zizek Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html Josefina Ayerza Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html

2 07, 2008

thinking nothing

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:11:05+02:00July 2nd, 2008|philosophy, research|0 Comments

PARRHESIA and COLLAPSE present a one day symposium (31st July 2008) with title: THINKING NOTHING - the void and its resurgence in contemporary thought From the emergence of empty set as a basis for ontology, to materialist negative theology, to Metzinger's 'nemocentric' destitution of the subject, contemporary thought seems to be obsessed with nothing. But the politics of this nothing seems drastically different from its earlier existentialist and postmodern nihilistic incarnations. This symposium seeks to explore the problem of nothing in contemporary thought, asking precisely how the postulation of an inherent negativity as a productive realm of philosophical discourse has come to characterise our intellectual landscape, and how the contemporary void relates to those of Ancient and Modern philosophical traditions. Speakers: Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne; Author of The Mundiad, Avoiding the Subject [with Dom Pettman], and coeditor/translator of Alain Badiou's Infinite Thought) Ray Brassier (Middlesex University; Author of Nihil [...]

6 02, 2008

Democracy and Dissapointment

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:11:29+02:00February 6th, 2008|philosophy, politics|0 Comments

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 [...]