Category Archives: Alain Badiou

Hardt & Negri and Badiou on the Arab uprisings

Posted on February 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Hardt & Negri have a piece in The Guardian here; Alain Badiou’s piece in Le monde is now available in translation here.

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The Space of the World 2009

Posted on February 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Here’s the initial project proposal I wrote in 2009 for the work I’m now beginning to think about more seriously. Globalisation remains a significant research topic across the social sciences and humanities. Yet despite attention within geography, a coherent analysis … Continue reading →

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Democracy in what state?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting looking new book from Columbia UP with a very impressive contributor list – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Žižek (via the Continental Philosophy blog). “Is it meaningful to … Continue reading →

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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, L’esprit du nihilisme: Une ontologique de l’Histoire

Posted on January 31, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting review of Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, L’esprit du nihilisme: Une ontologique de l’Histoire by Alexander R Galloway here. Thanks to An und für sich for the pointer. Galloway notes the relation of Badiou and Agamben that is going on in his … Continue reading →

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Badiou interviews Foucault

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Sean at Te Ipu Pakore for the link – a very young Badiou, and a fairly young Foucault (with hair). It’s in French, but if you click ‘cc’ you can get English subtitles.

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Badiou (and Žižek) on Wagner

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished reading Alain Badiou’s new book, Five Lessons on Wagner. I approached it expecting to learn more about Badiou than Wagner, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. A few clues aside, without his name on the cover I’d … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou, Five Lessons on Wagner

Posted on December 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou – new translation of his book Five Lessons on Wagner is out with Verso. Also has an afterward by Slavoj Žižek.

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Roundup – WW2 maps, Right-Badiouians, and the End of the World

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

At his Open Geography blog, Jeremy Crampton mentions an interesting GSU magazine story on his research on the history and politics of maps here  Graham Harman engages with some criticisms of object-orientated philosophy here, and ends with an interesting suggestion about the relation … Continue reading →

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Badiou on Beckett

Posted on October 12, 2010 by stuartelden

At Infinite Thought, Nina Power has posted an announcement that the translation of Badiou’s book On Beckett is now freely available as a pdf here. here.

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Badiou, Meillassoux and worlds

Posted on September 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Very interesting post from Graham Harman about the Badiou/Meillassoux relation (both father and son). It’s most relevant for me given that my next project is on the idea of ‘world’ in a range of forms. L’inexistence divine was going to … Continue reading →

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