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Chris

1 year

Badiou and Mathematics is Ontology or how to think about multiplicity in a library. I’m going to start a (continuing) thread here where I discuss the axioms of ZFC for people who are put off by the mathematical requirements for reading Being and Event.

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@logicsofworlds

2 years

What is a situation for Alain Badiou? The term situation is interchangeable with a set or a multiple. A set is a collection elements. The basis of a set is belonging. To illustrate, consider a library. A library can be thought of as a situation.

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6 months

“This society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.” —Guy Debord

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Working in the NYC subway on the go with Apple Vision Pro?! 🤯🤯

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1 year

That 2023 Žižek article on riots vs Alain Badiou 2013 book on riots

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2 years

More of you should stay away from theory and do manual labor instead. Drop out of academia. Join a union. Get job. Then try theory again.

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3 months

“but is he still addressing the listener who is truly present or is he instead addressing some other now, someone who is imaginary but realer still: the phantom of a memory, witness of his solitude, statue of his duty, or messenger of his fate?” —Jacques Lacan

bad_stats 🕜💵🖨️🕣

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3 months

As time goes on more and more of Jordan Peterson's arguments are just this, whatever this is

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2 years

“fascist logic is always identitarian” —Alain Badiou

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1 year

Badiou is exceptionally precise in what he means by Marxism and Communism. These four points only serve to orient any movement towards a politics of emancipation. Any absence of them is a sign of failure.

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11 months

Kafka Biopic when?

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“"His face," Freud tells us, "reflected horror at a jouissance of which he was unaware."” —Jacques Lacan

Decensored News

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1 month

WATCH: Miller finally called out on his creepy smirking when discussing the countless thousands of Palestinian civilians massacred by Israel "You're smirking! You're smirking as you say that... are you aware?" @samhusseini vocalizes what's been on so many people's minds all

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@1DimeOfficial “they leave wage labor, and thus capitalist production, untouched, and deceive themselves or the world into believing that through the transformation of land rents into a state tax, all the evils of capitalist production would disappear by themselves.” —Karl Marx

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1 year

During May ‘68, Badiou marched his students to help occupy factories in solidarity with the workers. Quite unthinkable in today’s world.

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1 year

You can quibble with a lot of this, but from my perspective most of these thinkers were their least interesting whenever they tried their hand at revolutionary politics. It’s why I can’t read Badiou.

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3 months

Lacan on leisure under capitalism.

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2 years

The president of Colombia just followed my Badiou account.

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4 months

@lakeeater It’s more focused on an immediate demand against an institution and has been met with swifter reactions from the State. I think OWS just confused people which is why there’s no real difference from the standpoint of public perception.

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4 months

Everybody wanna be a Freudian-Marxist but nobody wanna be a Lacanian-Leninist.

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2 years

“There is a tendency in Žižek to think that when you have completely translated some experience into the world of psychoanalysis you have done the work.” —Alain Badiou on using Jacques Lacan

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7 months

Alain Badiou on Nietzsche: “Therefore, I believe that Nietzsche is someone that one must at once discover, find, and lose.”

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6 months

Badiou’s remarks on Gaza and Palestine are the expatriation of Jews to Israel as not dealing with anti-Semitism as a European problem and a colonial decision to create Israel as compensation for the holocaust which has led to a horrible, rotten situation backed by the West. 1/

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Alain Badiou s'exprime sur la situation à Gaza, rappelant l'historicité et l'horreur vécue par les Palestiniens 🇵🇸

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@logicsofworlds

1 year

New Badiou

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8 months

Alain Badiou’s mathemes of the four subject-effects: •anxiety •superego •courage •justice

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1 year

If you take Foucault at his word on power, then class struggle simply doesn’t matter because power isn’t held by one class over another, rather is manifested in the economic process itself & dominates both sides through participation. This isn’t dangerous to Capitalism. Marx is.

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5 months

Once you understand this about Žižek, you see the gimmick and realize nothing he says is serious.

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8 months

Choose your fighter.

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4 months

“Suffering has its own language and it is quite unfortunate that anyone at all can speak it without knowing what he is saying.” —Jacques Lacan

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2 years

If you want to read Badiou but don’t understand the math, read Badiou because he explains the math. Lovely explanation of ordinality vs cardinality.

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@logicsofworlds

8 months

Anti-Oedipus is a coherent and reasonable critique of psychoanalysis that merits serious study and engagement.

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(Quote this with your response)

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1 year

The whole tone of Žižek’s article is you (“the left”) better behave or something worse (more fascism) will happen! He’s overemphasizing the lack of a good progressive outcome to the riots, but also this the guy who thought Trump would radicalize “The Left” and doubled down.

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6 months

Sam WM 🇵🇸

@_SamWM_

6 months

Remembering a Q+A where Žižek said something along the lines of ‘You know Badiou has a bad taste in films — he likes that sentimental Eastwood movie, Bridges of Madison County’. What a moron that man is.

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@logicsofworlds

11 months

Is this Left in the room with us right now?

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Tucker: "The Left, to their great credit, are masters of organizing. They are willing to put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal. They don't argue with each other in public. They know there's strength in numbers. Organizing is the path to power."

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1 year

Choose your fighter

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2 years

Colombian President Gustavo Petro casually dropping Badiou in a speech.

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7 months

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence." —Sigmund Freud

Dr. Daniel J. Winarick

@DrWinarick

7 months

Apparently some believe Freudian theory contains a push for or defense of socialism. I need to say the following because the opposite is categorically true. Freud’s theory is the most elegant, maybe overly broad and ambitious but coherent and compelling rationale and defense of

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1 year

Ok Foucauldians, what is happening here?

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6 months

Ok but we’re gonna do discourse on Starship Troopers but not mention Spinoza, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt on the wall in the classroom?

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1 year

I love how most modern radical thinkers are basically like let’s create a power vacuum and see what happens spontaneously.

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1 year

What is this cover??

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3 months

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Bryan Johnson says there are 6 things you can do to increase your life expectancy to 92 years

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Foucault’s disappointment with the conservative values of Communism. “it is good…to transcend them in the manner of play, by means of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair, to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa)”

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1 year

Bruce Fink on “satisfaction crisis” is one of my favorite insights from psychoanalysis.

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2 years

Understanding Badiou’s Gamma Diagram

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Badiou: Being ≠ Truth ≠ Subject Descartes: Subject = Being Heidegger: Being = Truth Lacan: Subject = Truth Deleuze: Being = Event

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@LuminanceBloom There’s no such thing as an academic relationship

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SOME PEOPLE TELL US THAT HEGEL’S DIALECTIC IS JUST THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS BUT GET THIS HEGEL NEVER EVEN SAYS THAT AND IF YOU TRY TO READ HIS BOOKS USING THAT FORMULA IT JUST MAKES NO SENSE LIKE IS THE MASTER JUST THE ANTHESIS OF THE SLAVE THESIS HOW DO THEY SYNTHESIS RIGHT

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The classic Žižek Christmas story

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2 years

I finished Badiou’s Immanence of Truths last night. In the final section of the book, on politics & communism, Badiou argues that we must look at the GPCR like Lenin looked at the Paris Commune. To build a mass movement, we must look at the organizational work beyond the failure.

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8 months

There is a Toni Negri that I respect. I wish more academics would follow his example.

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Antonio Negri (1933-2023)

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2 years

What is a situation for Alain Badiou? The term situation is interchangeable with a set or a multiple. A set is a collection elements. The basis of a set is belonging. To illustrate, consider a library. A library can be thought of as a situation.

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Who is your target audience when you tweet?

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10 months

Camus wanted the easy way out, neither victims nor executioners. Sartre replied:

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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." --Albert Camus

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The Destruktion of Heidegger by Alain Badiou

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1 year

@kbsbbch @beingandevent Žižek is objectively calling for a return to the status quo whereas Badiou sees the destructive nature of immediate riots in their inability to organize into something more revolutionary. I think that’s a pretty clear line of demarcation.

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Heat (1995) and Alain Badiou’s 3 subject types from Logics of Worlds: the faithful, the reactive, and the obscure; the thinking of the amorous couple and the event of love.

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2 years

“It goes without saying that this does not by any means prevent us from demanding the unconditional annulment of all laws against abortions or against the distribution of medical literature on contraceptive measures, etc.” —V.I. Lenin

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. Bans are expected in roughly half the states.

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“The subject, as I said then, begins analysis by speaking of himself without speaking to you, or by speaking to you without speaking of himself. When he can speak to you about himself, the analysis will be finished.” —Jacques Lacan

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@logicsofworlds

1 year

This guy practiced a line of flight and none of you Deleuzians said shit.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says U.S. soldier intruded into the North because he was disillusioned at the inequality of American society.

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6 months

@DuncanAStuart “Then start asking the right fuckin' questions.”

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1 year

Badiou already shut down Roudinesco on the idea that Lacan is some kind of conservative right-wings thinker. They actually had a sophisticated dialogue. Telling the world you don’t know how to read difficult theory without blithely dismissing it is some shameful shit.

Krapp's Last Vape

@SatireRedacted

1 year

I’m not even sure that the end product of Lacanianism isn’t right-wing, but I’m certain Lacan and his acolytes are responsible for more sophistical bloviating and priestly esotericism than most right-commentators could produce in a lifetime.

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by Georges Bataille

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What if set theorists had an actual understanding of Badiou?

Token Analytical Marxist

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What if Badiou had an actual understanding of set theory?

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6 months

Badiou still thinks the best possible outcome would be a single democratic state which hosts two peoples but is neither Jewish or Islamic.

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The whole point of Marxism is to abolish classes, not rank and order them.

R.Сам 🦋🐏

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Marxism is explicitly hierarchical. Proletarians >>> All other classes It’s anti-marxist leftism that is “against hierarchy” & suggests an absolute equality of all classes.

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@marleydq1 @lakeeater No, most seem like they’re demanding their universities immediately cut ties with Israel. It’s pretty focused and directed at that.

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“We're not fighting against men nor against a policy, but against the class that produces this policy and these men.” —Jean-Paul Sartre

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Fuck you. Your brain is inoperative.

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“The middle class is the “people” of capitalist oligarchies.” —Alain Badiou

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A defining goal of my presidency will be to build up the middle class. When the middle class is strong, America is strong.

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“Rather, their objective is to cover over the infinite “touching” of the event with a lexicon in which what is happening completely loses what seemed to be its meaning, the meaning those involved in it claimed for it.” —Alain Badiou

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Hamas = ISIS Remember that.

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2 years

This was the position Badiou took on the war in Ukraine in March and it still holds. It’s a neither-neither situation where all the empirical terms in the situation lack a third term of evaluation, which is to say, there is nothing political at stake.

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Badiou also says, while he won’t praise Hamas, the massacre of civilians was something practiced by the West. He cites specifically the American bombing of Germany during World War II as well as the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan.

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Badiou contra Derrida from Migrants and Militants

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Gotta say that I really love Derrida's text on hospitality.

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“To be a worker-consumer, which in some respects we are forced to be, is to inhabit modern finitude; it is ultimately to be a waste product of Capital.” —Alain Badiou

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@BarackObama

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As a college student, I was inspired by Studs Terkel’s book, Working, which chronicled what ordinary people did for a living. Working: What We Do All Day from @HGMedia is a new series that builds on that idea – sharing the stories of people from different walks of life, and

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Lenin: “Working-class consciousness cannot be genuine political consciousness unless the workers are trained to respond to all cases of tyranny, oppression, violence, and abuse, no matter what class is affected”

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I’m sorry but if you think this is what "moving to the right" sounds like, you've lost the plot.

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you putting žižek down vs me putting žižek down

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Ironically, you can take Žižek’s analysis of anti-Semitism and ideology, swap out the relevant terms for trans, woke, etc., and get a coherent understanding of how fascism today perpetuates a dangerous fantasy of a conspiracy to ruin society.

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Oh sorry, I’m working class, I don’t do “jargon”. I only understand reactionary jingoism and heteronormativity. Sorry but you have to appeal to my most backwards sentiments because that’s where I am. Silly you for thinking the workers are capable of understanding anything else.

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2 years

Badiou masterfully shows why electoral politics only cares about an individuated & temporary subject who disappears upon voting. The power of collective action far exceeds the ballot box. Immanence of Truths is a challenging read but these little gems make the effort worth it.

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“Indeed, we need to be able to propose what Plato called the long detour of thought, i.e., the possibility of slowing time down, of retreating from the uncontrollable speed of the world.” —Alain Badiou

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@logicsofworlds

1 year

Yes, Badiou understands political economy. The problem is that there is no economic Event which will end capitalism.

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Badiou is like: "See, the power of a Ramsey cardinal would be as bigger than any constructable ordinal, therefore Maoism." And I'm just like "Sure, whatever. Have you heard of generalised commodity production?" And he's like "what is a commodity?"

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2 years

I wrote up a review of Badiou’s Immanence of Truths.

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One fine distinction one should make on the topic of the Subject between Jacques Lacan and Alain Badiou. Badiou borrows heavily from Lacan’s idea that the Subject is constituted and places it after an Event.

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The mental health discourse on Aaron Bushnell’s act of self-immolation misses the Lacanian point: it was an act directed as a message towards the Other. The public display of setting fire to a soldier in uniform, as a Symbol of complacency with genocide, was intended for you.

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I was invited to be on the . @1DimeOfficial podcast to discuss Alain Badiou. What topics would you like me to try and incorporate into the discussion?

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I can’t stress how fucking useless and deluded some academics really are. If you have zero proximity to working people and the class struggle then you have no business making declarations about Marxism. People are right to ridicule intellectuals.

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Badiou being apolitical

Jonathan Fine

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Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of philosophy & theory have been apolitical--provided we define "political" as meaning "partisan." I don't think Heidegger, Badiou, Schmitt, Gramsci, Arendt, Locke, Rawls, et al had any use for politics.

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“There is no head of state on Earth today who, in this sense, is not virtually a criminal.” —Giorgio Agamben

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Sara Roy in 2016 on ‘there are no civilians in Gaza’

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Gonna recommend this small essay to supplement Badiou. Fascism is the politics of the false contradiction. We need communism as a mass movement that can oppose the the true contradiction: capitalism.

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1 year

As always, Hegel on people who complain about writing.

Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine

@philosophybites

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Rawls was right. Kant, Hegel, and Marx weren’t great writers (though all three coined memorable phrases). We rely on clearer commentators to make sense of them.

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The more I ruminate on this passage, the more I think Badiou has the correct response to that turgid ‘become imperceptible’ fetish: You already count for nothing. The intensity of your existence is already minimal. You have no name.

Badiou

@beingandevent

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… “The overwhelming majority of people are not inscribed. They count for nothing. As their only model, they're offered the societies that are not theirs, a vague promise, to which nothing connects them except being excluded from wealth, from democracy, from the West, and so on.”

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That Marx criticized bourgeois notions of equality does not entail that Marx was anti-egalitarian. Equality is only a formal possibility under capitalism, yet the inequality produced under the system renders it a farce.

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It’s still funny to me that people look at Badiou as an analytic philosopher in terms of his formalisms in math without understanding that he formalizes things in order to show the limits of those formalisms which demonstrates that something exists which is not formalizable.

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New Badiou

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Badiou barely makes a mention of Deleuze in the notes to Being and Event. I’m not sure why people who can’t do the fucking reading think they deserve the right to make opinions on the internet.

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The people of Palestine simply have no legible history within the Western mind but are nothing more than the eternal cosmic conspiracy against the Jewish people.

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Biden says Hamas is motivated by “ancient desires” to eliminate Jews

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There’s a reason people hesitate and refuse to engage with Alain Badiou. It’s because his philosophy implicates people into becoming Subjects who forge consequences of their Ideas into the world. Other philosophers only offer passive reflection of the world and resignation.

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@JarrydBartle You have no interest yet you want to have opinions.

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PEOPLE LIKE TO THINK THAT BADIOU’S EVENT IS JUST SOME KIND OF MIRACLE THAT YOU HAVE TO WAIT AROUND FOR BUT EVEN BADIOU REJECTS THIS AS A GROSS MISREADING OVER AND OVER AGAIN LIKE DID PAUL WAIT FOR JESUS TO COME BACK OR DID HE ORGANIZE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHRIST EVENT AFTER IT

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