Alain Badiou. Theater, Poetry and Philosophy. 2003 1/6

http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou talking about Samuel Beckett's work: "Krapps last tape" in a lecture about the relationship of theater, poetry, philosophy, stage, performance, thinking, writing, author and creator. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2003.
Alain Badiou, born 1937, in Rabat, Morocco is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ENS. Alain Badiou, Ph.D: Rene Descartes Chair at EGS, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou was a student at the école Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chaire of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul,Paul the Apostle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Lacan ...) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the centre of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

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[paintacanvass]

Here we are, in 'a situation', in 'a world', and for you, as a proponent of Badiou's philosophy, the event is 'undecidable': there is not even hope for political change as an immanent event (under Badiou's philosophy).  I hope the comments come out properly this time. lol.

[paintacanvass]

Somehow, only the last part of my answer came out. Anyway, here goes again. I said, you're right. I don't understand Badiou's philosophy, which is partly why I criticize it and its followers. I said it's been disabling action for political CHANGE, not 'halts'. I then said that you already answered your own questions before asking me.

[paintacanvass]

You are but a self-actualised element in one of Badiou's ontological sets, proceeded by the method of forcing and through the process of collection. However, before, I meant to say 'the event as transcendent, eventuality as transcendence'.

[paintacanvass]

So, here we are, in a situation, in a world. And for you, a proponent of Badiou's philosophy, this event is 'undecidable'. So, you've been delaying any change for yourself, your views, and you are quite obstinate as a result (not to mention hypocritically pompous with regards to 'big words').

[paintacanvass]

lol. No problem. You're right, I don't understand Badiou's philosophy, which is also partly why I criticize it, and its followers. Set theory has been directing YOUR thinking; and you misconstrued my words. I said political CHANGE, not 'halts'. Anyway, you answered all your own questions even before you asked me. You said the event in Badiou's philosophy is undecidable from the POV of "the logic of a situation", or "the logic of a world".

[Krelianx]

I'm sorry, but how does set theory predeterminately direct thiking into a delay which halts political action? What do you mean by 'predetermined directing'? What do you mean by 'event as transcendence'?

I'm not sure you have understood Badiou properly to be using these terms in such a lax manner. Go do your homework, read, and then come back if you have anything substantial to say. You're just trying to play with big words to score cheap points, but are looking rather ignorant instead.

[paintacanvass]

Badiou's philosophy is heading in a similar direction to Baudrillard's with regards to disabling action for political change. Its followers are waiting for an event that such a philosophy perpetually delays through the predetermined directing of set theory: "the event as transcendence" masked behind the concept of the transcendental.

[Krelianx]

Badiou now calls a 'world' what he used to call a situation; the logic of the situation is articulated on the basis of the concept of the transcendental which indexes degrees of intensity of appearance for the elements of a given set (order relation, conjunction, reverse, envelope), the object (atomic logic), and relation. Long story. Check Logics of Worlds for his theory on appearance. For his theses on ontology, Being and Event is prerequisite.

[Krelianx]

Uhm, i've had the book for over a month now. =S

[paintacanvass]

And what precisely, would "the logic of a situation" be then?