…Marxists, I wonder, Vivek, if you would also rejected like I do, is my, now I have problems with him, ultra Maoist, Alain Badiou. You know what is very brutally his answer to revolutionary non-activity of the working class in Western countries? In a kind…

…authentic sense, but in the sense of let them have their own culture. Slovoj, I want to go back to what you said about Badiou, because it's very important. I don't want that point to get lost. Because it's a very widely held notion among the white left…

…tragic. That's why I repeat all the time, no, this war is not the moment of truth. It's the moment of, as Alain Badiou would have put it, the greatest disorientation in this sense. You know, it's very tragic how not only COVID practically disappeared.…

…relationship which is not structurally inaccessible, but just currently outside of our reach. Incidentally, it is sad to see how even Alain Badiou falls into this trap. His solution for our sexual predicament is the creation of a new symbolic space for men…

…of today's radical left are best exemplified by a long TV dialogue between Piketty and the French Maoist great philosopher Alain Badiou. Badiou's vision is that of nomadic proletarians who will emerge as a new revolutionary force. Piketty's proposal is no…

…fact alone, it is clear, to me at least, that nomadic immigrants are not proletarians, in spite of attempts by Alain Badiou and others to promulgate refugees into the exemplary figure of today's proletarians. What makes proletarians proletarians is the fact…

…and so on and so on. I don't want to... Second video question, please. My question's about communism. So along with Alain Badiou, you are one of the philosophers who reinvigorated the philosophical discussion of the idea of communism with a series of books…

…Pope, I don't know his work a lot. What I nonetheless, up to a point, liked is this idea that, as my friend Alain Badiou recently said, commenting on the yellow vests in France, he said, in French, I will immediately translate it, Tous ceux qui bougent…

…I wondered to what extent you had love in mind when you defined event. I do. I do. And also, one must say, Alain Badiou, from whom I took the term event, doesn't. Again, in English... We have, but also in French, I've written about it abundantly. This…

…this one. When things go, and that's how I read Mao, When, and incidentally with Mao, I'm far from celebrating it, like Alain Badiou almost broke all contact with me because of that introduction to Mao, where I also praise Mao, but also show somebody.…

…love this. I love what you are doing. You know why? I dedicated my book, In Defense of Lost Causes, to my good friend Alain Badiou, who, it's a wonderful story, once he asked me for a phone. saying that he is expecting an important message. So while I…

…of oscillations precisely because it's a reaction to a fundamental impossibility. Here I disagree even with my otherwise good friend Alain Badiou, who posits as the starting point is the real as the multitude of multitudes. And then somehow it gets caught…

…evidence is that of the cry of dereliction of Christ on the cross. You also write a lot about Paul in the conversation with Badiou and Schmitt and the Gambin and the sublation of law, sin as law, etc. But Paul... When Paul writes, he doesn't seem to…

…for me, the true... Test of a relationship. Okay, it's nice, those passionate nights, blah, blah, blah. But as my good friend, Alain Badiou, the French guy, developed, the other side of love is to expand it into everyday life, to establish all these small…

…throws it off the rail and so on. At the same time, I think, and here very classical metaphysician, what my friend Alain Badiou would have called events, like without having a personal commitment, it can be love, it can be science, even work, whatever…

…and so on and so on. So I think effectively a good old-fashioned passionate love, I repeat here the old joke from my friend Alain Badiou, you don't have it in German, they have it in French and in English, to fall in love, tomber, to fall in love.…

…allow so many different readings, and now I will say something evil but really in a very friendly way about my good friend Alain Badiou. in this perfect way. He just writes it down, you know. He said, subject, object, and write it, S-O, but my God, it…

…a parallel between... This is what interests me in, for example, Paul, the Paulinian community of believers. Here I agree with Alain Badiou. The Paulinian community of believers living in this emergency state at the end of time, it's not only a theological…

…He should remain nameless, yes. It's another one. It's even a part of a friendly dialogue with my otherwise good friend Alain Badiou. What I didn't like in that orientation is this idea that A, The state is here to stay. State apparatus, capitalism,…

…try this, try that, and so on, so that... Like, okay, to repeat the story very quickly, that I often repeat. My friend Alain Badiou drew my attention to it, and then I found the same example in France. You know, sorry, in United States, you know this…

…debate in the past few years, particularly as a result of the interventions by Slavoj over there and by the French philosopher Alain Badiou. And I think this is a very useful thing to have happened because we're confronted with an extremely serious and I…

…And it seems to me better than some of the things that have been put around in the current debates. Like Badiou, in his writings on communism, vacillates between a very abstract notion of communism as essentially the ideal of equality, which seems…

…grows The grounding for any real movement towards communism is provided by capitalist society and its contradictions. And Badiou says nothing about that. Secondly, what's missing from Badiou's discussion of communism is self-emancipation. The self-emancipation of…

…as a figure of Stalin. Okay, let's go on. What I also share with you is at least the first part of your critique of Badiou, that is to say his total of political economy has a place, a direct place, in what he calls idea of communism. My point here…

…in what he calls idea of communism. My point here would have been simply that what one should do with regard to Badiou is, because Badiou is here, although he denies it, obviously Kantian. He even calls in his communist hypothesis this idea and actual…

…calls idea of communism. My point here would have been simply that what one should do with regard to Badiou is, because Badiou is here, although he denies it, obviously Kantian. He even calls in his communist hypothesis this idea and actual social life.…

…wants to ask you a question. Yeah, please. My question to Mr. Slavoj Zizek, sir, is that you being a great admirer of Alain Badiou, you are very much conformity with his ideas on event, how it changes life and how it changes your whole viewpoint, how…

…too much time. But let me tell you something, unfortunately. In the last five more years, I somehow lost contact with Badiou, because that's my point. He would have answered me, of course, in his own terms. When I mention these principled opportunists,…

…on it of social harmony and so on to keep it. So as for event, you know, where was our misunderstanding? Isn't it with Badiou? He... For him, there are times of events, big time, enthusiasm, and so on. And then an event runs out of its course. But…

…the measures and so on, radical measures, but don't fall into... simple ideology. What do I mean by this? Often, my friend Alain Badiou, the French guy, developed this nicely. How today we have a problem of the so-called death of God. There is no…

…leftist, a conservative today in the sense that I think that... I think that there is something very beautiful, my French friend Alain Badiou invented, in the expression, do you have a language? We don't have it, but in French they have it, in English…

…that somehow we should all come together, women, students, workers, immigrants, and so on, is very difficult to achieve. My friend Alain Badiou, whom you, Angeline, I think already kindly mentioned, he is even a pessimist here. I would not go as far as…

…as a group, part of what Lenin called workers' aristocracy. Privileged, totally corrupted, we cannot count on that. Then, Badiou proposes as an ersatz, an other, emancipatory agent what he calls nomadic proletarians those the homeless people who emigrate…

…then changed his position, but you know, when he wrote Not only state and revolution, but even in the first month of, Alain Badiou told me this wonderful detail, of October Revolution, I think that Paris Commune was in power, of Paris, of course, for two…

…longer the old master with some dignity. And here I agree, maybe you will not agree with me, with a figure like Alain Badiou. Sorry, with Alain Badiou who pointed out that let's not dismiss masters generally. Sorry, what was Nelson Mandela is not a great…

…with some dignity. And here I agree, maybe you will not agree with me, with a figure like Alain Badiou. Sorry, with Alain Badiou who pointed out that let's not dismiss masters generally. Sorry, what was Nelson Mandela is not a great master figure. What…

…friends that I don't agree with them is false romanticization celebration of immigrants. Like here I slightly disagree with my friend Alain Badiou who coined the term nomadic proletarians, you know, like. But behind this I think there is a a terribly weird…

…would like to criticize him a little bit at the philosophical level, and incidentally, because of some of my lines like this, Alain Badiou is even now mad at me, you know. Mao Zedong... I think was wrong when he deployed his Olympic vision, reducing…

…So, again, The second point, I even doubt to provoke you a little bit about this local democracy, even my good friend Alain Badiou I think goes too much into this, that our ultimate goal should be not representative state but living local democracy where…

…am an elitist here, not elitist in the sense of intellectual elite. It happens to everybody. I just say, following my friend Alain Badiou, that true, authentic love is rare. It's not something that happens all the time, but when it happens, you know it,…

…of his fake, this idea of, because you know, social democrats were from the beginning aware of something that my friend Alain Badiou insists on. Those in power have arms, police power. What people only have is large number and discipline. I completely…

…on. That's the true problem. So I think that that's why I find problematic the notion developed by my good friend Alain Badiou of immigrants as the ultimate proletarians. He calls them nomadic proletarians as the figure which will maybe move our society…

…the meaning of these new protests that are exploding everywhere today. They are very ambiguous, often, socially. I agree with Alain Badiou, who said, maybe I'll even mention this here, although I'm not sure, who said, apropos yellow vests, a wonderful title,…

…tea and so on. But seriously, it's very good that you mentioned the revolution, because you know what I think? And Alain Badiou gave to me this idea. No, what's happening today, it's not like before... world war two it's more unfortunately before world…

…dialogue, and so on, and so on. And here, the ruling ideology constructs a specific role for women. My good friend Alain Badiou described to me how, because his adopted son had some legal problems and he witnessed it, how often in modern, especially…

…call them high-level spiritual experiences, scientific knowledge, even political practice and so on, are grounded, this is what my friend Alain Badiou calls event, are grounded in erotic event, in the sense of it's not life as usual, It's an interruption. So…

…a subtle way, under this false celebration of femininity, a new form of conformist ethics is installed. As my friend Alain Badiou developed, in today's state repression, a certain manipulated figure of femininity plays a crucial role. Like Badiou had an…

…As my friend Alain Badiou developed, in today's state repression, a certain manipulated figure of femininity plays a crucial role. Like Badiou had an adopted son who had some minor trouble with drugs, crime, minor crime and so on. And then he was…

…draw maybe there is maybe not I'm not so sure a difference here it doesn't matter if I really hit with this Alain Badiou or not the difference between Badiou and Lacan for Badiou subject is without an object What makes subject, subject is precisely, it's…

…I'm not so sure a difference here it doesn't matter if I really hit with this Alain Badiou or not the difference between Badiou and Lacan for Badiou subject is without an object What makes subject, subject is precisely, it's not embedded in, and so on.…

…difference here it doesn't matter if I really hit with this Alain Badiou or not the difference between Badiou and Lacan for Badiou subject is without an object What makes subject, subject is precisely, it's not embedded in, and so on. For Lacan, there is…

…and so on and so on, you know. Like, I'm more and more convinced this is a slight step. Critical point about my friend Alain Badiou, that the true event is after the event. Forget the big thing. What fascinates me more and more is, okay, the big orgy…

…it's my nature, I cannot, I'm like that scorpio, you know, who bites the frog. No, you mentioned yesterday this unaccountable Badiou and so on, no? But I think we should read this against the background as potentially critical of this simplified Badiou…

…unaccountable Badiou and so on, no? But I think we should read this against the background as potentially critical of this simplified Badiou or Rancière notion of this unaccountable surplus which is the site of the event. They are just, to put it in…

…to total subsumption. End of quote. I like this volume, although incidentally I learned it's meant as a critique of what Alain Badiou and us did here at the Communist Conference. No, this is... Okay, why not? Okay, so... Balibar develops here the notion…

…your title. You said nomadic proletarians, question mark, no thanks. Yeah, yeah. No, because, you know, this is my implicit polemic with Alain Badiou. I deeply respect him, but I don't buy his version. I think it's part of what I call West European, how…

…It's a very complex question. We have to renovate all this. Who is the working class today? Because, you know, as Alain Badiou once mentioned to me, in every historical epoch, there is usually one... specific image of working class, which somehow symbolizes…

…of things, to paint an ideal image like, oh, nonetheless, we live in a basically good, just society. It's, as my friend Alain Badiou put it, The basic function of ideology is not to destroy opposition or actual resistance. Police, others do this. It's to…

…be friendly towards refugees, and we will somehow manage it. No, we will not. This is why, following my friend again, Alain Badiou, I don't like this parallel between now and the mid-30s, fascism. I think a much better parallel is between today's era…

…a state with another state, you know, the Leninist model. in the Cultural Revolution, which is, I think we see, I'm sure, Badiou and Lazarus and people like that agree with the moving from the politics, from the objective, the state and history combined…

…job, immigrants and so on and so on. And I don't see here the same revolutionary potential. All my leftist friends, like Alain Badiou and so on, dream that out of this a new revolutionary agent will emerge. got maybe the best, the most efficient analysis…

…of the woman and the power of the youngest people. How did this change the world of the century? I think it's another one. Alain Badiou, in a short book, made a very good distinction. He said that, this is a very general era for men there was still…

…perfect welfare state. It's a perfect welfare state dream. Now, how does this defeat then function? I want to quote here Alain Badiou, who described three distinct ways for a revolutionary movement to fail. First, there is of course a direct defeat. You…

…This should be like either parliamentary democracy or communist so-called totalitarianism, like you end up imitating the enemy. And then, Badiou claims, there is the most authentic but also the most terrifying mode of the defeat, guided by the correct…

…purity by the ultra-leftist resort to all destructive terror, whatever you want, Chinese Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge, and so on. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. A quote from Badiou. One of the great Maoist…

…Chinese Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge, and so on. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. A quote from Badiou. One of the great Maoist slogans from the Red Years was, dare to fight, dare to win. But we know that if…

…deep, almost Heideggerian that, you know, the greatest danger is the inherent nihilism of the revolutionary project itself. But nonetheless, what Badiou is effectively saying here is the exact opposite of Mao's dare to win. You should be afraid to win, to…

…return to the state power logic, or gets caught. into the infernal cycle of self-destructive purification. This is why Badiou proposes to replace this 20th century revolutionary logic with what he calls subtraction. Instead of winning, taking over power,…

…state power. Again, sympathetic as this proposal is, I think we simply pay too high a price for it. It simply means, and Badiou does accept this conclusion, that, to put it in blunt terms, we don't fight capitalism. But you explicitly claim this. He says…

…effectively win. The capitalist ideology in its most basic components is the air we are breathing today. And here, following Badiou, I would like to introduce a distinction between capitalism referring to Benjamin, different types of violence, but you have a…

…you think, there is hope, whatever. No, it's not even to oppress opposition. Police does that, social control, etc. It's, as my friend Alain Badiou put it some time ago, it's to kill hope. What does he mean by this? I'm shocked how when I debate with…

…Second aspect of abstract subjectivity is that, but Lacan's position is not. Here is a great difference between Lacan and Alain Badiou. Badiou's formula is subject without object. She uses it. For Lacan, there is no subject without object. Every subjectivity…

…that I don't agree with them, is false romanticization celebration of immigrants. Like here I slightly disagree with my friend Alain Badiou, who coined the term nomadic proletarians, you know, like... But behind this, I think, there is a terribly weird…

…notion of time, no... Okay, so what I wanted to develop here is a couple of things based on the work of Badiou. The first idea by him that I find so intelligent is the idea of... so-called counterfactuals. You imagine the way the situation…

…I like most about Poland? Actually, you never answer these questions. All other questions are pretty predictable, this kind of reference to Badiou or Roncier or other stuff. You were asked a thousand times about it. You answer in the same way. So actually…

…I would like to have the precise place where I really say this, because I think this is my eternal ongoing conflict with Alain Badiou, who claims that state is bad and all authentic politics is outside state. For me, this is what Hegel would have called…

…have is not the final answer, that it has its own problem. And that's so important today, because as my friend Alain Badiou put it nicely, the ruling ideology today, does not oppress directly progressive forces. For this, the state has police, ideological…

…and others have tried to change too much things in the 20th century 20th century they tried to do it what my friend Alain Badiou calls passion of the real let's really change things the result where to put it mildly Gulag Holocaust not exactly the best…

…portraits of South Korea. What they provide is the image of a place deprived of its history, a worldless place. Alain Badiou has reflected that we live in a social space which is progressively experienced as worldless. Even the fascist anti-Semitism. opened…

…would like to criticize him a little bit at the philosophical level, and incidentally, because of some of my lines like this, Alain Badiou is even now mad at me, you know. Mao Zedong I think was wrong when he deployed his Olympic vision, reducing human…

…model of state, of economy to function. I don't see that model. But we need it, otherwise we are in hell. You've mentioned Badiou, Alain Badiou, and I'd like to know how is it that your atheist rereading of the cross might eventually relate to Badiou's…

…state, of economy to function. I don't see that model. But we need it, otherwise we are in hell. You've mentioned Badiou, Alain Badiou, and I'd like to know how is it that your atheist rereading of the cross might eventually relate to Badiou's atheist…

…space in Badiou's edifice for this line of thought, which in German idealism It's called radical negativity, death drive, and so on. Badiou even now tries to develop a kind of a positive dialectic. His analysis, I simplify it very much, is that 20th…

…Free enclave. And we just defend it. We don't do it in a more aggressive way. The second problem, it's not a problem with Badiou, is he for me still remains too, I will not go now into philosophical problems, anti-statist. In the sense that His idea is…

…problem? He laughed very much when I told him this. That it really happened to me. I gave a talk in Israel, quoting Badiou, and some people ironically started to applaud me. You know who were they? West Bank settlers. They say, why doesn't it hold also…

…world too much, only a totalitarian horror can be the final result. So, every vision of another world is dismissed as ideology. Alain Badiou put it in a wonderful and precise way. He wrote that the main function of ideological censorship today is not to…

…which at the end even undermines itself, she doesn't want even to be called as feminist, is that... Sorry, another problem today, and Alain Badiou, I think, was right to draw attention to it, is that today a certain image of woman as a human face of…

…emerging, which I think is an obscene betrayal of feminism, but it is... One of the new ideological functions of women like Badiou makes in a book on youth, I don't know if it's translated into your language already, he makes this wonderful observation…

…which deprive tens of millions of their homes and savings and are then rewarded by state help of sublime grandeur. As Alain Badiou put it succinctly, a quote, One demands absolutely from ordinary citizens to understand that it is not possible to fill in…

…want to change it too much, only a totalitarian horror can ensue. Every vision of another world is dismissed as ideology. Alain Badiou put it in a wonderful and precise way. The main function of ideological censorship today is not to crush actual…

…is let's say, a focus on form, a focus on legalization and on formalization, mathematization. And you know the work of Badiou. Lacan also is stressing enormously the role of formalization. And he, for instance, Lacan takes up what Plato says in the…

…is an ethical position, let's say, we need formalization. And so that's one thing I don't see you do immediately, to focus like Badiou does, or like Lacan does, on formalization. So that's perhaps a small question of why is that not your focus. And... in…

…Marxist, pseudo-Marxist, I claim, historicist critique, which says, oh, human rights are just ideological universality, and... That's what Badiou says. What? That's Badiou's viewpoint, Alain Badiou's? I have minor misunderstandings with him here. And, you know,…

…Not that I am for Marine Le Pen. But this tragic closure. How, and, so here... What does this tell of ideology today? Alain Badiou at some point put it in a wonderful way when he wrote that the main function of ideological censorship today is not to…

…and so on and so on. But okay, let me go on. So every vision of another world is dismissed as ideology. Alain Badiou put it in a wonderful and precise way. The main function of ideological censorship today is not to crush actual resistance. This…

…of different ways of life where they cheat, I think, even with all my love for him. For example, My good friend Alain Badiou recently published a text on multiculturalism, blah, blah, and he claims every group in France should have the right to stick to…

…like, if you don't want it, you know. I like to do this all the time. For example, I annoyed my good friend Alain Badiou, who... propose that formula which is beautiful in the west is work against this idea of immigrants are destroying our roots you…

Alain Badiou is my best friend. A French man. But he wrote a very good book. De quoi Sarkozy et il ne nomme. Of what Sarkozy, the president, is the name. Where he just draws attention to some simple facts. Which are, when we hear of France, we all…

…which explodes every, I would say, 30, 40 years. In between, the France is a very opportunistic, conservative country. The thesis of Badiou is that if there is a figure which stands for what we call la France profonde, the deep France, this traditional,…

…discovered the right solution. And this will bring me to the conclusion, if I will have time, of today's talk, something about Alain Badiou, our friend, French philosopher and his ontology. You know how they have it in Warsaw, at least in the hotel where…

…feel free to answer the phone. I would have done the same. And do what, as I did it in, I thanked to my good friend Alain Badiou for a one, this is how we became friends. You know what Alain Badiou did to me once? He told me somebody will call me,…

…what, as I did it in, I thanked to my good friend Alain Badiou for a one, this is how we became friends. You know what Alain Badiou did to me once? He told me somebody will call me, so I lent him a cell phone. Then I was giving, like here, a…

…what I mocked at the beginning as healthy sex. That today we like to avoid this type of falling in love. My friend Alain Badiou told me in France that many dating and marriage agencies Refer to this phrase and incidentally in the United States I also…

…is more and more solipsistic. I will tell you a story, maybe you know it, it was told to me by my good friend Alain Badiou, and then I checked it out in the States, you have the same phenomenon, namely... In French and in English it works. You say,…

…that in a certain totality, A totality always includes an element which is what Jacques Rancière calls part of no part, or Alain Badiou calls the symptomatic point, an element which is formally part of that totality, but at the same time has no proper…

…you are In a typical tendency, more and more, in the rest, people rely on marriage or dating agencies. And my friend Alain Badiou drew my attention to this. One of these agencies in France made a wonderful play with works which This advertisement of the…

…points like the fate of modern painting and so on. No, what I wanted to say is that to draw attention to Badiou here, this is what Badiou means with his multiplicity. That precisely this fuzziness, you know what's his ontology of multiplicity? It is…

…painting and so on. No, what I wanted to say is that to draw attention to Badiou here, this is what Badiou means with his multiplicity. That precisely this fuzziness, you know what's his ontology of multiplicity? It is that... multiplicity is fundamental…

…at atoms. If you divide, subdivide it, it just gets fuzzy, it's void. That's the radical thought. This is where I really appreciate Badiou, because his ontology is an ontology of, how should I put it, the opposite of zero is not one, but The primordial…

…universal, is no longer an item today, so let's move to protecting our Jewish identity. To name the two main participants, Alain Badiou, a still universalist, and Jean-Claude Milner, whom I appreciated till 10, 15 years ago as the one who wrote that…

…and pursues Hitler's politics with other means. So only this point I wanted to make. In no way... in no way discrediting Badiou, quite on the contrary. Again, I think that figures like Badiou... Sorry, what I wanted to clarify is that those bad guys,…

…I wanted to make. In no way... in no way discrediting Badiou, quite on the contrary. Again, I think that figures like Badiou... Sorry, what I wanted to clarify is that those bad guys, let's call them the traitors of Maoist universalism, it's typical how…

…Foucault can be redeemed. The interesting thing to learn from there is nonetheless how. Because I'm here totally for Badiou, because it's typical when this disgusting phenomenon called the new philosophers emerged. Later he disliked, but immediately for the…

…there is no substantial relation or dialectics between events as, you know, plural events in Badiou's thought. And that's precisely why Badiou can ignore political economy or even class struggle in his philosophy and, you know, in his poems. This is an…

…theory of class struggle and still be some sort of communist. But my problem is that can you, as a Hegelian Marxist, like Badiou talk about absolute as subject but not as substance because maybe the formula must be reversed in a way maybe we should say…

…This is a key problem. Maybe we should ask the master here because just to introduce you as an amusing element. I once, when Badiou talks about love, no? I once asked him a typical male chauvinist question. Okay, but can I have at the same time... How…

…of rupture is what relates them. And they are effervescent, as he says. They disappear. So to that extent... We're not discussing Badiou today, we're discussing Zizek. So let us... Badiou will be here in a few months. You can come and ask Badiou himself.…

…are effervescent, as he says. They disappear. So to that extent... We're not discussing Badiou today, we're discussing Zizek. So let us... Badiou will be here in a few months. You can come and ask Badiou himself. So a few more people were interested. But…

…not discussing Badiou today, we're discussing Zizek. So let us... Badiou will be here in a few months. You can come and ask Badiou himself. So a few more people were interested. But he's not Zizek's, Badiou's agent, you know, he's Zizek. No, no, I like…

…a step further and like, okay, whatever, no? No, but you see what I mean. I mean, I think here I agree with Badiou, who said that ecology precisely because it is a real problem. It's also a terrifying, crucial site of struggle for me. Ideological…

…about it. So I'm still looking for someone to do my triple Antigone or to do these new versions of Parsifal. Because, you know, Alain Badiou, his dream is to stage... Alain Badiou has two dreams now. One is, as we all know, to do a film on Plato. But…

…someone to do my triple Antigone or to do these new versions of Parsifal. Because, you know, Alain Badiou, his dream is to stage... Alain Badiou has two dreams now. One is, as we all know, to do a film on Plato. But you know what kind of film. First,…

…be played by Tom Cruise, but the one from Magnolia, you know, the disgusting character. Penelope Cruise should be Plato's wife. And Badiou himself should be the old Parmenides, the great one. And first I thought he is joking. And then it took me half…

…more commercial. Now Hollywood is deleting sex. What is going on here? I think something very sad is going here. My friend Alain Badiou noticed A strange thing. She read a French ad for marital agencies where they said, it's the same, it works in French…

…a formal political party seeking to take state power. This is the one point on which he disagrees even with his friend Alain Badiou, who advocates subtraction, that is, politics at a distance from state power. Giray calls that the state is to be taken…

…fundamental, and just to really finish, all that problem of state, subtraction, and so on, and so on. You know my problem with Badiou is the following one. That's my problem with that resistance is surrender, and so on, and so on. But your position is…

…precisely what atheism could mean today and... This is just part of a larger movement I'm engaged in, thinking here with Alain Badiou, Johnston himself, and others. I think very interesting things are going on today with the topic of materialism. Did you…

…emphasize, no, only finite material actual objects really exist, and so on, and so on. But I agree here again with Alain Badiou and some of his pupils who claim that not only today, but throughout the 20th century already, maybe starting with early…

…I claim here also we should turn it around. It is only materialism which can think. So, materialism today, and that's what Badiou develops in a very nice way with all the, maybe he's half-buffing, I'm not sure, references to Cantor and so on. It's…

…still the last, I'm not sure, What Happened in the 20th Century, which is, interestingly enough, a direct dialogue with Alain Badiou. Okay, Sloterdijk is some kind of neo-half-neo-conservative, critical of Badiou. But I was surprised, if you are not deceived…

…which is, interestingly enough, a direct dialogue with Alain Badiou. Okay, Sloterdijk is some kind of neo-half-neo-conservative, critical of Badiou. But I was surprised, if you are not deceived by appearances, how far does Sloterdijk go? So, finally, let…

…yet translated, incidentally, unfortunately, into English. I hope it will be. It's a short book. After rejecting... The 20th century, what Badiou calls la passion du réel, passion of the real, because for Sloterdijk, this passion of the real, you know, get…

…of enemies, and so on, and so on. Well, Sloterdijk, I think, is wrong here. First, if you read Badiou's book, Century, Badiou is well aware that passion of the real is always accompanied by a passion for semblance. This is why Badiou develops in…

…book, Century, Badiou is well aware that passion of the real is always accompanied by a passion for semblance. This is why Badiou develops in a very nice way how the 20th century passion of the real, which effectively ended up in different totalitarianism,…

…rid of false semblances and so on, has to be replaced by the real of subtraction. It's a totally different logic. Also, Badiou is fully aware. That's clear in Badiou. Sloterdijk misses it. How... precisely the regimes which may appear to be passion of the…

…has to be replaced by the real of subtraction. It's a totally different logic. Also, Badiou is fully aware. That's clear in Badiou. Sloterdijk misses it. How... precisely the regimes which may appear to be passion of the real at its clearest, like radical…

…a short remark of the relevance of Marxist critique of political economy in our era of global capitalism. I agree with Alain Badiou that not only is Marxist critique of political economy his outline of the capitalist dynamics still actual, one should even…

…philosopher, and you can call Slavoy one of the major subject-oriented philosophers, along with his compatriot, or his colleague, Alain Badiou. But there are some things that I really gravitate towards in his writing. First of all, I think philosophers…

…in that way. That's why... I Oh, there it goes. Can I maybe add something here, maybe to help you? You know, going to Badiou, and I know Badiou very well, my God, we are friends. I don't think he would agree with your description. The key feature of…

…I Oh, there it goes. Can I maybe add something here, maybe to help you? You know, going to Badiou, and I know Badiou very well, my God, we are friends. I don't think he would agree with your description. The key feature of his mathematical ontology,…

…inconsistent, full of gaps, and so on. And there he sees the opening. In spite of this, my very friendly critique of Badiou would have been that, okay, he has this ontology of mathematics, multiplicity of multiplicities, and then... I don't think, and he…

…same complaints about everything. Sometimes the imagination comes from elsewhere, from what the left denounces. A complaint about your friend Badiou. All of the events that he counts as political events, none of them are going to surprise Badiou because…

…complaint about your friend Badiou. All of the events that he counts as political events, none of them are going to surprise Badiou because they're all based on the communist invariant, as he says. Nothing's going to happen that makes Badiou say, oh, maybe…

…them are going to surprise Badiou because they're all based on the communist invariant, as he says. Nothing's going to happen that makes Badiou say, oh, maybe I was wrong. Maybe the left is wrong here or there. Communism is going to prevail in every one…

…that it effectively confronted us at its purest, as it were, with the problem, which is ideology today. Let me quote Alain Badiou, his short comment on crisis published in a letter to Le Monde. Quote, One demands absolutely from ordinary citizens to…

…be movements which are very fanatical egalitarianism, and so on and so on. So, here, I think that the hope professed even by Badiou that some movement may appear conservative now, but this is only the first step. In the long term, they will see who the…

…he discovered mahler through visconti death in venice you know that one we got him here no I mean, you know who is Alain Badiou, the guy who thinks Bridges of the Medicine County is a great film, and so on. No, but seriously, take that famous Adagetto…

…sympathy for him. So, if you ask me frankly, I don't like Tariq Ali's book against Obama, and I share this dislike with Alain Badiou, who told me, now comes the paradox. I agree with his analysis, how, you know, Obama... But fuck him. What did he…

…were, establish free territories outside state power simply and use violence only as a defensive measure. This sounds okay, but I think Badiou goes here one step too far in. not talking at least about how, from a serious Marxist standpoint, when you don't…

…we have to invent our violence. At what level? What I learned from that book about China is the following, that... I think Alain Badiou is wrong here. My best friend is slightly wrong. Well, I think. His obsession with the formula of what was wrong with…

…we have this totalitarian distance from state power. Then we have this neo-left John Holloway and unfortunately John Holloway and Alain Badiou, my good friend. At least here they come strangely together. This idea of subtraction, like literally state is out…

…Or to put it in more even theoretical terms, you know this distinction between like all the French guys like it, Badiou, Ranciere, between society as corporate social body, each at our place, and this radical egalitarian point. There is always some kind…

…in a way that effectively leads to unfreedom or non-freedom. And this may lead to a particular form of what Alain Badiou calls disorientation. Disorientation because one may be all for freedom and effectively endorse something that has nothing to do with…

…potential. the devil that it, philosophy itself, unleashed in its founding gesture. Philosophy is something crazy, radical. It's always as Badiou quoted, of course, Socrates corrupting the youth and so on. There is a radical negative dimension and the gap is…

…where the expression is precisely to fall in love, tomber. To fall in love. So I found in English, and my friend Alain Badiou found it in French, an advertisement for a dating and marriage agency where they use the same expression, and it's horrible for…

I'm very grateful for your kind invitation. I always like to drop beans for my good friend Alain Badiou and I must tell you from my private experience because I know of at least five, six people who began to hate him because he had to cancel in the…

…the change? How, you know, the difficult, it's relatively easy to do this big ecstatic explosion. The really difficult thing is what Badiou calls the work of love or fidelity to the event. to translate this explosion into new rules, new order for everyday…

…That's the metaphor Lenin uses in the previous efforts. And this exactly, I claim, is where we are today, after what Badiou called the obscure disaster of 1989, the definitive end of the epoch which began with the October Revolution. One should therefore…

…around the corner waiting to explode. Back in 1983, Georges Peyrol, I'll tell you a secret, one of the pseudonyms of Alain Badiou, wrote 30 ways to easily recognize an old Marxist. A wonderful critical portrait, ironic of course, of a traditional Marxist,…

…engages in a desperate strategy of protecting its authentic purity by the so-called ultra-leftist resort to all destructive terror. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. Quote from Badiou, if subjectivity is afraid not…

…so-called ultra-leftist resort to all destructive terror. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. Quote from Badiou, if subjectivity is afraid not so much to fight but to win, it is because struggle exposes it... to a…

…does this mean? Is communism then simply impossible in the sense that it cannot be stabilized into a new order? Even Badiou presents the eternal idea of communism as something which returns again and again, from Spartacus, Thomas Mincer, Rosa Luxemburg, up…

…then communism to remain the eternal spirit of egalitarian rebellion, whose destiny is to fail in one of the three modes deployed by Badiou? To fail or to persist but in subtraction from the domain of state power? The problem for me is the following one.…

…does this mean? Is communism then simply impossible in the sense that it cannot be stabilized into a new order? Even Badiou presents the eternal idea of communism as something which returns again and again, from Spartacus, Thomas Mincer, Rosa Luxemburg, up…

…then communism to remain the eternal spirit of egalitarian rebellion whose destiny is to fail in one of the three modes deployed by Badiou? To fail or to persist but in subtraction from the domain of state power? The problem for me is the following one.…

…That's the metaphor Lenin uses in the previous efforts. And this exactly, I claim, is where we are today, after what Badiou called the obscure disaster of 1989, the definitive end of the epoch which began with the October Revolution. One should therefore…

…around the corner waiting to explode. Back in 1983, Georges Peyrol, I'll tell you a secret, one of the pseudonyms of Alain Badiou, wrote 30 ways to easily recognize an old Marxist. A wonderful critical portrait, ironic of course, of a traditional Marxist,…

…engages in a desperate strategy of protecting its authentic purity by the so-called ultra-leftist resort to all destructive terror. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. Quote from Badiou, if subjectivity is afraid not…

…so-called ultra-leftist resort to all destructive terror. Badiou aptly calls this last version the sacrificial temptation of the void. Quote from Badiou, if subjectivity is afraid not so much to fight but to win, it is because struggle exposes it... to a…

…decided, choosing who to let in and who to keep out. There are these migrants who, in this formulation that you borrow from Badiou, are either possessed of a desire for the West... Or are possessed of this desire for the West that has kind of curdled…

…shopping malls in their benighted third world cities. I should hear, I refer there, when I say this, I try to give following Alain Badiou some kind of what I see as a genesis of so-called terrorism with a clear critical edge also towards us. My point…

…a lot. Till now we have a certain notion of masculinity which was predominant. It was, I follow here my good friend Alain Badiou who develops this in his new book, which was defined by a certain right of maturity. Like in traditional societies, but this…

…a book that I finished reading a couple of days ago. It's a very new book. A new book by my good friend Alain Badiou, La Vraie Vie, The True Life. The book opens with the provocative claim that from Socrates onwards, the main function of philosophy is…

…conscription is a clear case of privatization of state itself. This disintegration of a shared ethical substance, I follow here Badiou, who develops this, how this disintegration affects differently the two sexes. And I'm well into transgender debate. I don't…

…Their position was always perceived as the one of between the two, between mother and whore, lover and saint, and so on. Badiou sees in this between the two something much deeper than an effect of oppressive patriarchal ideology. A quote from Badiou, a…

…and so on. Badiou sees in this between the two something much deeper than an effect of oppressive patriarchal ideology. A quote from Badiou, a woman is the overcoming of the one in the guise of a passage of between the two. End of quote. The conclusion…

…a woman is the overcoming of the one in the guise of a passage of between the two. End of quote. The conclusion Badiou draws from this is surprising but consequent. It's crazy. I like this passage, although I maybe don't totally agree with it. Namely,…

…from this is surprising but consequent. It's crazy. I like this passage, although I maybe don't totally agree with it. Namely, Badiou claims that by their very existence, women are atheists. They embody resistance to one God, denouncing it as a fiction.…

…are more and more ludic adolescents, outlaws. Women appear as hard, mature, serious, legal and punitive subjects. This is why, as Badiou claims, there is a bourgeois feminism bent on domination. Women are today not called by the ruling ideology to be…

…did it, but I don't follow. But you know, I have some intellectual problems also. And my intellectual problem was always Alain Badiou. Because he's always telling the truth and I don't understand the truth. And I don't understand the truth. taught by…

…always Alain Badiou. Because he's always telling the truth and I don't understand the truth. And I don't understand the truth. taught by Badiou and by Zizek, so I don't understand your Badiou. But let me ask the question. Because you know that we are all…

…and I don't understand the truth. And I don't understand the truth. taught by Badiou and by Zizek, so I don't understand your Badiou. But let me ask the question. Because you know that we are all the time in deep, friendly, but deep problems. I know,…

…monstrous. Sorry, what I want to say is that I know what is problematic there with this Trump versus Hillary, and I don't read Badiou as giving a general theory of sexual difference to that, so on and so on, but as a very vague description of typical,…

…this is a tendency that makes me really afraid. I will speak about this more this evening in South Bank. My good friend Alain Badiou just published a book. which I love it. I almost cried, but I don't totally agree, but it's beautiful. La vraie vie,…

…militaries on their side. And precisely that potentially progressive, egalitarian side of the army, we are losing it today. But back to Badiou, it's a beautiful beginning where he says that he wants just to go on with what from Socrates onwards is the...…

…proof that God doesn't exist, you know. It's a kind of a totally naive, beautiful passage and so on. But more about Badiou, again, later or this evening, because he does something which brings us back to Hillary Trump and so on. Something wonderfully…

…our western struggle for sexual freedoms and so on and so on, on the other hand this third world revolt of what Badiou calls, I have some doubts about the term although it's a nice one, nomadic proletarians, let's not underestimate the trouble of really…

…it's usually referred to as the, how do you usually call it, the wandering excess, you know, the idea is, you find this in Badiou, in Ranciere, and in others, the idea is that, okay, at the philosophical level they say, There is always, in any field of…

…God, on the notion of rebel, pebble in Hegel, as that part of the social edifice which is precisely, as Rancière put it, And Badiou follows him here, la part du non-part, the part of no part, something that is in the social edifice but with no proper…

…some people will have all the power, other people will not. And here, I think that, and I agree here with Badiou, he developed this, that now, the horror is that through this latest digital control and biogenetic manipulations, that class divisions will…

…So again, The second point, I even doubt to provoke you a little bit about this local democracy, even my good friend Alain Badiou I think goes too much into this, that our ultimate goal should be not representative state but living local democracy where…

…the state, not just supplement it with popular movements. Look at this fiasco which was previsible. Here I celebrate my friend Alain Badiou, who, although he's a crazy Maoist still, but from the very beginning, you know, when it was so popular, the left…

…created the base for today's explosive capitalism. Because, you know, before China was very traditional Confucian. Cultural revolution for me Alain Badiou was so mad at me when I told him this. The objective function of Chinese cultural revolution was to…

…to prepare the conditions for Deng Xiaoping. There is no tension there, you know. That's the tragedy. That's the tragedy. And as Alain Badiou, whom I got is still even a Maoist, repeats. If we still want to talk about communism, we really have to accept,…

…point. This relationship tends to function today, I claim, in a radically different way. underwent a reversal noted by Alain Badiou apropos Jean Genet's famous play, Balcon. Quote from Alain Badiou, democracy means precisely that there are no costumes.…

…a radically different way. underwent a reversal noted by Alain Badiou apropos Jean Genet's famous play, Balcon. Quote from Alain Badiou, democracy means precisely that there are no costumes. Inequality no longer wears a costume. There are dramatic, gigantic…

…in some sense, film as a kind of thinking, as a mode of thinking. Thinkers from Deleuze, Marie-José Mondin, Roderick Nancy, Badiou, et cetera. But you might be distinctive among this group your Lacanian approach, that is to say foregrounding the unconscious,…

…key. For example, to be stupid, did you see, I'm ashamed to mention it, but an evil step at my very good friend Alain Badiou, did you see Armageddon that Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, I mean, with Badiou we have this running joke. I always talk…

…evil step at my very good friend Alain Badiou, did you see Armageddon that Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, I mean, with Badiou we have this running joke. I always talk around evil things about him. You know, when he developed the notion of courage,…

…Radical egalitarianism is a European notion. Communism is a European notion. The notion of modern subjectivity is European. When Alain Badiou celebrates the power of capitalism to disintegrate old communal ties, when, in a strict Marxist sense, he detects in…

…great struggles that goes on today in what remains of the left. There are so-called anti-Eurocentric post-colonial thinkers who attack Badiou, me, and other proponents of communism as all too European. They claim, no, communism failed, They claim that the…

…here to the theory proposed by Barbara Cassin, a contemporary French philosopher who is engaged in an internal friendly dialogue with Alain Badiou. And claiming that, and it's also clear from the text, that the true partner in dialogue for Plato, the other…

…mathematics, you know. Numbers become bearers of cosmic harmony, cosmic meaning, and so on and so on. So the dialogue between Badiou and Barbara Cassin can be best characterized as the new version of the ancient dialogue between Plato and sophists, the…

…Barbara Cassin can be best characterized as the new version of the ancient dialogue between Plato and sophists, the Platonist Badiou against Cassin's insistence on the irreductibility of the sophistic rapture. Cassine's theory is still a very precise one. What…

…complete idiot, is introduced into sex by an experienced woman. And I'm sorry if you know it, but I love it. Once I attacked Badiou on these lines, that he sometimes, when he said, il faut décider, we have to decide. No, he didn't like it, my good…

…that he sometimes, when he said, il faut décider, we have to decide. No, he didn't like it, my good friend Alain Badiou. Namely, there is a wonderful American joke where... An experienced woman introduces an idiot into sex. Okay, they undress. She says,…

…is coming to an end. So, and then I much prefer here, I must say, this approach, which is that of Deleuze, Lacan, and Badiou, which is more an eclectic approach on, you know, like you take whatever you want from history of philosophy and so on. Our…

…and that's crucial, no longer primarily relies on censorship, but on unconstrained permissiveness. I would like to quote here my friend Alain Badiou, who wrote, Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via…

…democracy Well, it's not a word which, how should I put it, divides. I claim, and I agree here again with my friend Alain Badiou, a true idea or concept divides in the sense that you use it in order to draw a distinction between naively ideology and…

…doing today, mostly, is not wait for the big revolution, but find what I would like to call, again, following Badiou, le point d'impossible, the point of impossibility of the system, which means... Apparently small, specific demands which appear totally…

…problem for me. And it's just, Putin is just a key player. Here I'm a pessimist. I spoke recently with my good friend Alain Badiou and he made this idea why our times are so dangerous today. We are really approaching the repetition of the Europe around…

…And it's the same story in France for decades. Look at them. Okay, Foucault was lucky at the end, and interestingly, Alain Badiou also got to École Normale Supérieure. But look at, for example, I don't know, Deleuze, Vincennes, and then Saint-Denis, totally…

…stick to the term communism is to avoid the term socialism. Because here at least I still agree with my good friend Badiou who claims, and he's not original here, every radical leftist thinker would agree with this, that a true concept divides. It allows…

…and also with the other, and at this level, to accept this radical abyss of the other, ethnic other, even in love. Alain Badiou, at least here, we should agree with him. When he explodes against this cheap, even with Wagner, it's much more complex.…

…this doesn't happen, that like, oh, we are immersed into the same primordial abyss together. And here we come back to Badiou, and although I have problem with certain type of poets, but you will know this better, didn't even Rilke said something…

…ha, ha. We know the story now, but it's totally ignored in our media. But I believe the story for the simple reason Alain Badiou told me this and showed me the clips. You know, he learned the story from Le Figaro, which is the right-wing daily. But…

…any easy solution, but the first thing is to establish that you have to make a choice here. You cannot say, even with Alain Badiou, I had a small conflict here, because he said no state should remain above all this. Okay, but I told him, let's say…

…totally stupid intervention in Libya. I'm no friend of Gaddafi. I'm just saying to the honor of a good friend of mine, Alain Badiou, with whom I will return here in two months or one day again. He, I remember, warned me already before the intervention…

…doing in Sweden, today you are proclaiming crazy, radically leftist, lunatic, or whatever. In these times when, again, enemy propaganda, as Alain Badiou put it nicely, the goal of enemy propaganda is not to destroy the enemies, police is doing this, it's to…

…to say here is that, let me give you an example. I get now a friendly debate at the end, we agreed with Alain Badiou, he elevated The notion of equality, you know all this French political stupidity, I don't buy it, that what is impossible for…

…very precise here, that, you know, If anything is proven by this Greek case, and by many other examples, it's that what Badiou calls nicely the point of impossibility of a certain system need not be some big fundamental feature like equality. It can be…

…I think that there is something in the structure of today's power which works like that. And I follow here Lacan who, and Badiou, who read in this way, you know Jean Genet, his play Balcony, Balcony, that that's the basic, that the how in our so-called…

…insignia. The point developed already by Lacan in his reading of Genet's play, I'm not even sure in which seminar, and then Badiou in his nice short book, Pornography of the Present, he develops this, is that today's power functions in a, tends to…

…is that precisely because maybe of our permissivity, it's disappearing. What do I mean here? Did you notice how my good friend Alain Badiou drew my attention to it? Did you notice how we are in a way returning to pre-modern times of arranged marriages…

…bears this title, it tends to function today in a radically different way. It underwent a weird reversal noted by Alain Badiou apropos Jean Genet's wonderful play Balcon, quote from Badiou, from a short book which was recently translated called Pornography…

…radically different way. It underwent a weird reversal noted by Alain Badiou apropos Jean Genet's wonderful play Balcon, quote from Badiou, from a short book which was recently translated called Pornography of the Present. Quote, We encounter here an imaginary…

…called enemy propaganda. Wait a minute, I'm not ridiculing this term, as you know, in this fascist or Stalinist sense, but Alain Badiou again wonderfully defined it, quote from Badiou, The goal of all enemy propaganda is not to annihilate an existing force…

…ridiculing this term, as you know, in this fascist or Stalinist sense, but Alain Badiou again wonderfully defined it, quote from Badiou, The goal of all enemy propaganda is not to annihilate an existing force but rather to annihilate an unnoticed possibility…

…So again, what we get here, if you ask me, is this obsession with With what? I'm sorry if I repeat myself, but here, Alain Badiou gave me a nice idea when he drew attention to the fact that in French and in English, the word we use when we…

…so on. No, I think that I agree here on many points, I don't agree with him, but here I agree with Alain Badiou that the three absolute philosophers in the history of philosophy are Plato, Descartes, and Hegel. Why? Because they defined an entire epoch…

…effectively are part, although they are not French, of the French tradition. This is my general problem also with my excellent friend Alain Badiou. He proclaims to be, and he is in a sense, communist, blah, blah, but did you notice how in all his…

…power. You know, as if, this is the great motto that even if they are enemies, all of them agree with mostly, Agamben, Badiou, name them, that, namely that authentic politics is at a distance from state. Okay, then I always ask them, but what does this…

…strange? Usually we thought Hollywood adds sex to make it more commercial. No, Hollywood, and you know what happens here? My friend Alain Badiou wrote a lot about it. We are allowed sex today, but it has to be healthy sex, sex reduced of its dangerous…

…had a conversation, I report to you with my, and this time I will not criticize him in any way, recently, with Alain Badiou, and he developed something which really did strike me. You know, it's almost fashionable today to say, we are approaching a new…

…ISIS, helping Iran to maintain its hegemony over Iraq and so on and so on. Why? Because I think, here I agree with Badiou, his idea was that these new tensions, this is no longer Cold war in the sense of different world views. We are effectively,…

…maybe, I'm too optimistic even, an all-out atomic war. But many things can happen, I claim. Because I agree with Badiou that it's really, and people say colonialism is over. No, it's not economic colonialism's fierce influence. It's really exactly the…

…miserable reality of an individual functions today in a different way. More and more, it's like this, I quote here Alain Badiou, who wrote this apropos Jean Genet's wonderful play, Balcones. Quote from Badiou, we encounter here an imaginary feature of…

…more, it's like this, I quote here Alain Badiou, who wrote this apropos Jean Genet's wonderful play, Balcones. Quote from Badiou, we encounter here an imaginary feature of democracy. Democracy means precisely that there are no costumes. Inequality no longer…

…oh my God, it's my fate, I cannot help, and so on. Do you know that now, I noticed it, and my good friend Alain Badiou noticed it in France, how more and more dating agencies directly refer to this phrase and for example one big publicity that I saw…

…It is more and more solipsistic. I will tell you a story, maybe you know it, it was told to me by my good friend Alain Badiou and then I checked it up in the States, you have the same phenomenon, namely In French and in English it works. You say,…

…people should not be too immersed in their consumerist everyday pleasures. Better, even if it's catastrophe, but something must happen. Alain Badiou told me that, you know, his, again, the empirical origin of his formula, mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre,…

…désastre qu'un désêtre, better a disaster than a non-eventual survival, originated after he read this book. But I find it, and Badiou also, knows this, that It's... You know, that's the whole problem. When we are in relatively satisfied... We live a…

…peaceful life. Is it really that anything that disturbs this is better or not? That is to say... Here, I think that Badiou is sometimes too seduced by this motive of just the things happen even if it's a catastrophe, better than nothing. For example,…

…that what I would have... Yes, okay, I will put it in these terms. The true choice, I think, is not, as Badiou said, better disaster than non-being. Non-being means for him simple animal life, nothing happening. The true choice is between pseudo-event and…

…is between pseudo-event and non-being. Like, what is better, fascism or ordinary bourgeois society? This is the true choice. And Badiou sometimes sounds as if just to kick things into movement, he would prefer even that. For example, he wrote something…

…First, as the shift from mythos to logos. the break of the Greek philosophy from the traditional mythic universe. And here, Alain Badiou is right when he pointed out how Parmenides is the point of passage. You remember, you know this better than me,…

…why event happens. What I want to do is precisely to, not to criticize him, but to supplement my and our good friend Alain Badiou. And I talked with him and we both came to the idea that, you know, Usually people misinterpret his notion of event as…

…three key philosophers, only three in the entire Western thought. Plato, Descartes, Hegel. Why? A very simple negative proof. And again, Alain Badiou gave me this idea. Did you notice how each of the three occupies a unique position in the sense that no…

…and I don't want to go into it now, is what do we mean by democracy? It's not self-evident. Me and my friend Alain Badiou, we were for a long time fighting with this problem. At some point, Badiou thought democracy is a term too much over-determined by…

…not self-evident. Me and my friend Alain Badiou, we were for a long time fighting with this problem. At some point, Badiou thought democracy is a term too much over-determined by whatever imperialist Western connotations, and it's better to drop it. But…