Radio DelEuZe: Subject and Appearance:research

12.11.09

Subject and Appearance:research

O to be in England now...

___Jill 's heading to London: London bridge is falling .............................____________________
On Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject and Logics of Worlds----------------------------------------------------------------------the logi c of worlds!~

Friday 20 November 2009

Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton way, London WC1 5DL

10.20 Introduction, Peter Hallward

10.30 SUBJECT

Bruno Bosteels Theory of the Subject
(Cornell University, NY)

Kristin Ross ‘Badiou, Mallarmé and the Commune’
( New York University)

11.15 Discussion

Chair: Peter Hallward

12.30 Lunch break

1.45 APPEARANCE-weird choice of word Like its some saint coming down!

Alberto Toscano Logics of Worlds

(Goldsmiths, London)

Ali Alizadeh ‘Badiou and Hegel’

(CRMEP, Middlesex University)

2.30: Discussion

Chair: Peter Osborne

3.45 Break

4.00 Subject, Appearance, Politics
Panel: Ali Alizadeh, Bruno Bosteels, Nina Power, Kristin Ross, Alberto Toscano

Chair: Éric Alliez

4.30 Closing discussion

5.00–6.30 Reception

Continuum has kindly provided access to the following extracts from the books, to which we plan to pay particular attention:

Theory of the Subject
http://www.continuumbooks.com/download/Theory_of_the_Subject_Extract.pdf

preface, pp. xxxviii-xlii (following the translator's introduction)
pp. 98-110 (Mallarmé)
pp. 259-274 (the inexistent)

Logics of Worlds
http://www.continuumbooks.com/download/Logics_of_Worlds_Extract.pdf

pp. 141-152 (Hegel)________ O my its Hegel!
217-221 (postulate of materialism)___________Do we really Have Bodies?
277-289 (retroaction)_______________ retro thought?
321-324 (the inexistent)______________________> provocative title
363-380 (Commune, and in particular pp. 376-380)________ The Paris Commune
the most important social event of the last 1000 years

The event is free but reservation is essential. Contact Tom Eyers on: TE122@live.mdx.ac.uk.

The event has been organised with the generous support of the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela, and with funding from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy.

__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

_AnD______as_______for___

As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.