Tag Archives: Badiou
CFP: The International Journal of Badiou Studies
The International Journal for Badiou Studies is an international, peer-reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the philosophy and thought of, and surrounding, the French philosopher Alain Badiou.
Only Communism can save liberal democracy (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
By Slavoj Zizek, October 2011: 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist State-Socialism, but also the defeat of the Western Social Democracy. Nowhere is the misery of today’s… Read more
The Symptom 12
The Symptom 12 / lacan dot com – Fall 2011 Jacques-Alain Miller The Non-Existent Seminar Alain Badiou Towards a New Concept of Existence Slavoj Žižek Why the Idea and Why… Read more
Badiou: “Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d’est balaie l’arrogance de l’Occident”
Read an English translation of Alain Badiou’s recent article for Le Monde. Translation kindly provided by Cristiana Petru-Stefanescu. The Eastern wind is getting the better of the Western one. How… Read more
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy: Vol 18, No 2 (2008–2010)
Vol 18, No 2 (2008-2010) Special issue on Godard and Philosophy, co-edited by Burlin Barr and John E. Drabinski Table of Contents Philosophy as a Kind of Cinema: Introducing Godard… Read more
New Book: Democracy in What State?, Agamben et al.
From Columbia University Press: Essays by, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek “Is it meaningful to call oneself a… Read more
Video: Badiou
Alain Badiou : “Does the notion of activist art still have meaning?”
Miguel Abreu Gallery, October 13, 2010
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (editors) Price: $40.00 AUD $25.00 USD £16.00 GBP ISBN-13: 978-0-9806683-4-6 ISBN-ebook: 978-0-9806683-5-3 Publication date: 2010 Pages:… Read more
Filozofski Vestnik: Vol 7
Current Issue What is it to Live?/Qu’est-ce que vivre? Vanessa Brito, Deleuze et les modes de vie mineurs Justin Clemens, The Life of the Party: A Brief Note on Nietzsche’s… Read more
The Idea of Communism: Philosophy and Art (2010)
From June 25 to June 27, 2010 the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz hosts an interdisciplinary congress called “The Idea of Communism. Philosophy and Art”. The core event is a philosophical conference… Read more
Badiou: Is the Word “Communism” Forever Doomed?
Alain Badiou Is the Word “Communism” Forever Doomed? http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=323 I name ‘event’, a rupture in the normal disposition of bodies and normal ways of a particular situation. Or if you… Read more
Critical Horizons: Special Issue on Simon Critchley’s Neo-Anarchism
Critical Horizons:A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 2 **SPECIAL ISSUE**Ethics of Commitment and Politics of Resistance:Simon Critchley’s Neo-AnarchismEdited by Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio… Read more
PARRHESIA, ISSUE 6, 2009
Click here to read the articles FEATURES Cinema as a Democratic Emblem Alain Badiou, translated by Alex Ling and Aurélien Mondon The Desert Island and the Missing People Vanessa Brito,… Read more
Symptom 10/Lacan dot com – Spring 2009
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… Read more
Badiou on BBC
In a BBC HARDtalk interview broadcast on 24 March 2009, Stephen Sackur talks to French socialist philospher Alain Badiou. As the world’s richest economies plunge deeper into recession could there… Read more
On the Idea of Communism
Earlier this month, as many readers know, Alain Badiou, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Gianni Vattimo, Slavoj Zizek all participated at the conference “On the… Read more
Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou on Samuel Beckett
Slavoj Zizek Beckett with Lacan – part 1 http://www.lacan.com/article/?page_id=78 The achievement of Joyce simultaneously signals his limit, the limit which pushed Beckett to break with him. If there ever was… Read more
Parrhesia: Issue 5, 2008
Link ‘You cannot make a living just being a theoretician’: An Interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté With Jeroen Lauwers & Thomas Van Parys Michel Foucault, Philosopher? A Note on Genealogy and… Read more
Krisis 2008, Issue 3
This year it is exactly 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Krisis’ new issue is therefore dedicated to philosophy and human… Read more