May 2013
alain ‘cake and eat it’ badiou
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“Every subject stands at the crossing between a lack of being and a destruction,...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
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“Until Freud, epistemology as founded on the trajectory which goes from...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
A guide to consuming ethically in capitalism
anarcheluxemburg:
kshiying:
anarcheluxemburg:
Step One: You can’t
Step Two: Try anyway.
No.
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Freedom as they know it — People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have. Attempts to change this are seen as shameful intrusions into the realm of the very individuality that by the logic of that freedom has dissolved into an administered void. But the...
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“The popular-democratic interpellation not only has no precise class content, but...”
– Ernesto Laclau, ‘Politics & Ideology’
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“The question of the question is, it seems to me, the enjoyment of thought. But...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Commitment, Detachment, Fidelity’
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“For if ‘every thought emits a dice throw’, we must admit that that...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Commitment, Detachment, Fidelity’
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“If we provisionally sum up the Hegelian project in two correlated concepts,...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘The (Re)commencement of Dialectical Materialism’
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“Dialectical materialism is strongly at risk of being, this time with reference...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘The (Re)commencement of Dialectical Materialism’
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gimme that old time causality-by-freedom
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“[it is always] reality that gets in the way of the uncovering of the real.”
– Alain Badiou, ‘The Century’
Interviewer: Okay, let’s turn to the word ‘communist’. For many in Britain (and many more in the United States) it is a scare word. As a result many on the anti-capitalist left prefer to talk of ‘democracy’ (prefacing the word with ‘radical’ ‘direct’ or economic’ so as to distinguish it from its ‘liberal’ variant). Why should we talk of a ‘communist’ horizon?
Jodi Dean: Because ‘communist’ is the one word we have that signals anti-capitalism more than anything else. Really, when the anti-capitalist left uses the word 'democracy' they are signalling their own accommodation with capitalism. They aren't really anti-capitalist at all. They usually want capitalism with a human face, with a little bit less exploitation and immiseration. So-called radical democrats were at the forefront of jettisoning class analyses, of moving away from the economy and toward culture.
Interviewer: But for many, ‘communist’ also signals ‘gulags’, ‘secret police’, ‘show trials’ and so on. The current predilection of Republicans to call everything, from Obama to a single payer health system, ‘communist’ is indicative of this.
Jodi Dean: Actually, that Republicans call Obama a communist means that they are deeply threatened by anything that does not fall into lockstep with their own agenda of finance capital plus militarism. In other words, if they really thought that communism signalled 'gulag' then they wouldn't think it was attractive enough to be an actual threat in the contemporary US. Communism would be 'dead' and 'past,' 'over' and 'defeated' rather than something with emancipatory and egalitarian promise. So, I don't think that they are just repeating Cold War rhetoric. I think that they are inadvertently noting the truth of communism, its commitment to equality, to ensuring that each has access to employment, education, housing, food, and health care.
“If events had to be delayed until the proletariat entered the decisive struggles...”
– Lukacs - Lenin: A study on the unity of his though.
(via luxurycommunism)
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“[T]he legacy of anti-Jacobinism is a preference for the condemnation of some...”
– Jodi Dean, ‘The Communist Horizon’
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“Today, I would no longer say “every subject is political”, which is...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Conditions’
sterwood replied to your post: theory of the subject is the most obscure thing i…
I know that TotS is usually considered Badiou’s ‘first work’ but after reading some of Hallward’s introduction to Badiou, it seems like it was the culimanation of the entire ‘early Badiou’ - maybe that’s why it’s so obscure?
bosteels’ introduction is pretty helpful, and i’d be lost without the ABCs...
theory of the subject is the most obscure thing i have ever read holy.
maybe i should just finish with althusser.
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“The fact that one can describe the mass movement, its memorable lucidity, its...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
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“To think the real amount to thinking the self-annulation of that which makes the...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
breeding dogs fit for epoché
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging...”
– William James
(via thelittlephilosopher)
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“…with the first thinkers the atomistic principle did not remain in this...”
– Hegel, ‘Science of Logic’
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“Here we must single out for condemnation the makeshift philosophy of the...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
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“Every subject is political. This is why there are few subjects and rarely any...”
– Alain Badiou, ‘Theory of the Subject’
“Man is this animal whose definitive property is to participate in numerous...”
– Alain Badiou, What is to Live? (via jayaprada)
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“What is demanded [from Kant] is thus the following: we should know the cognitive...”
– Hegel, ‘Lectures on the History of Philosophy’
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“By practice in general I shall mean any process of transformation of a...”
– Althusser, ‘For Marx’
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“[G]reat philosophical revolutions are always preceded and “borne...”
– Athusser, ‘For Marx’
“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems...”
– Maximilien de Robespierre (via bustakay)
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“Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices...”
– David Harvey, ‘A Brief History of Neoliberalism’
whose utopia exactly is postmodernism i think i’m missing something.
luxemburg casually eating postmodernism in 1900
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“And when [Bernstein] wars against “raising of the material factors to the...”
– Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Reform or Revolution’
nhaler replied to your post: insert militant practice here no stahp.
Without commas, this just kinda comes off as a rap by Eminem
commas are barbaric
insert militant practice here no stahp.
cement.
talk more about the cracks in the althusserian edifice, yer heterogeneity will plug em right up.
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ugh informal proofs.
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“…truth is not-whole [not] because it always includes a certain degree of...”
– Alenka Zupancic, ‘The Shortest Shadow’
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“Verily, I also do not like those who consider everything good and this world the...”
– Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ 