Tag: Badiou

  • Philosophy, Colonialism and Partition.

    Philosophy, Colonialism and Partition.

    Perhaps the title should have included “non-philosophy”. lol This talk concerns the opening whereby philosophy is indicated to its method through the ending that supersedes its domain. Specifically, and in the context of Francois Laruelle’s “Christo-fiction“, that which supersedes any conventional appropriation is the quantum. In particular, there is no philosophical posture that is able to bring…

  • …and sowing the seeds: Reply to Blake with draft excerpts from “The Second Moment”.

    Reply to Terrence Blake’s recent post over at Agent Swarm: As usual Terrence you pegged it. It’s strange how I view it and actually I can totally agree with you and yet somehow there’s something that I’m not agreeing with and really that has to do with my work, The strange situation that I find…

  • The Significant Event: The Romance, Irony and the Veto.

    The Significant Event: The Romance, Irony and the Veto.

    Significance. What we can call the Romance is based upon and or around what I call the significant experience, which falls well in line with Alain Badiou’s ‘Event’, what could then be called the significant event. The irony that surrounds this feature of being human concerns a confusion of the individual, between what arises of…

  • The Impossible. Part 1; If/Then.

    The impossible can be discovered along many significant vectors of reality as limit. The particular discussion that contains or otherwise accounts for the various vectorial meanings is ironic; it is the event that begins the count, that can be said to to be a basis upon which a linking of meaningful terms is made that…