…there is a step to be made here, which I'm nonetheless not ready to make it. And I admire my good friend, enemy Alain Badiou, that he made this step, but I'm not ready to follow him here. Namely, there is something nonetheless wrong in what he did.…

…nonetheless wrong in what he did. This is my first reply to critics. My first critic is here my best friend almost, Alain Badiou. In a recent interview, he published a short book together with, and this I will never forgive him, together with Elizabeth…

…what they together proposed there. The idea is that since all this Galician-Horizontal networking and so on is the way, as Badiou likes to put it, today's human-animal function, our utilitarian everyday life, the only way to break the spell of bourgeois…

…pleasure-oriented bourgeois individual, a subject is fidelity to a master. It's a total rehabilitation of a master. And I almost admire Badiou here because he goes to the end and claims that there was a deep necessity in so-called cult of personality in…

…in so-called cult of personality in communist movement. Lenin, Stalin, Mao. Here is the quote. There are three persons, Rudinesco, Badiou, and then Ayashiman, this is the journalist of Liberacion, now he moved to Nouvelle Observateur who is asking them.…

…master as the symbolic authority and so on and so on. I think they are simply too nostalgic here, Rudinesco and Badiou. No, we cannot return. What happens today with whatever we call it, postmodern capitalism, is that... the symbolic authority is fatally…

…capitalism, is that... the symbolic authority is fatally wounded, we cannot return to it. So, and I find especially strange from Badiou to advocate this return to the master, because you know, Badiou likes to emphasize, for example, in his book on the…

…cannot return to it. So, and I find especially strange from Badiou to advocate this return to the master, because you know, Badiou likes to emphasize, for example, in his book on the communist hypothesis that The only politics can be serious politics, can…

…play pragmatic politics and so on and so on. So, again, the challenges are great here. I think that in this debate, Badiou versus postmodern, fluid, plural, multitude figures of authority, I think that both poles are wrong. The structure of a master, as…

…him, is no longer a Fukuyamaist. But I don't have a clear solution. I'm certainly totally sure that, as my friend Alain Badiou emphasizes, the 20th century is over. We cannot simply return neither to Stalinist communism. So, like you, I'm here... I'm here…

…with some other fashionable trends. But most of it is how my apartment looks, how I dress in comparison with Tony Negri and Alain Badiou and so on. And some of this type of jokes. Although the guy... pretends not to agree with it he reports on all…

…Now we have Hollywood... Censoring, deleting sex. I don't think this is a progressive move. I think I agree here with Alain Badiou who developed this in his last book. This is all part of this extremely narcissistic trend when even a passionate sex…

…much, that may disturb our narcissistic balance and so on and so on. It's the same reason for which also, as Badiou noted, we are now witnessing a strange rehabilitation of the ancient tradition of prearranged marriages. The only difference being that in…

…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…

…of love and so on. No, love, true love for me is not just dirty things that happen. during the night, but as my friend Alain Badiou likes to say, how you build a world out of it, how you restructure your life out of it, and here I agree with you,…

…this is why today like If love is too passionate, it's almost perceived as something obscene, prohibited. We don't live in... Alain Badiou says, do love reconstruct? It's a revolutionary new world. So the other example I would say is Gilles Deleuze says,…

…idea of Deus absconditus, le Dieu caché, the hidden God. There were already many Marxists, not only Lucien Goldman and Alain Badiou, who recognized the proto-communist dimension of Pascal there. You know what is Pascal's idea? That God doesn't want to reveal…

…with my friend here, not elsewhere, you will find, I know that in a couple of weeks I will get an angry letter from Alain Badiou, how could I write this, and so on, attacking him, but here I agree with him, when he praises love, precisely as the…

…by you, jerk, you know. This is as good as Hegelian as you can get. about your relationship with your enemy friend, Alain Badiou. How do you understand his reading of the event? And the second part of the question is, you said each philosopher stands…

…message is we are walking on the edge of abyss. And which is why, although they are even too easy for, too soft for Alain Badiou, I am also like him, are for me maybe the most tragic political letters, but of such an ethical, namely, you know the…

…Because what you cannot... Solve, it doesn't necessarily mean terror, and typically. Remember when you enumerated the invariants of communism, of Badiou? I noticed a conspicuous absence. For him, one of the four is terror. and you instead of terror get lost…

…before I go to the substantial point, I like how you mentioned Sartre, anti-communist Sartre talks, because we all know that Alain Badiou got into trouble with his book on Sarkozy. where he played on Rat, Ratman. So maybe, you know, in this wonderful…

…sphere, say, by organizing democratic banks under people's control. It is in this precise sense, and in this sense only, I know Alain Badiou is playing with fire here, that I think he was right in his claim provocative, I'm not the only crazy guy who…

…On the other hand, so that you will not think something is wrong, I hope he's not here because I formally prohibited Alain Badiou to come here. No, no, seriously, because, you know, he has some health problems and he came yesterday tired and I saw…

…Buddhists see as evil is for us the good itself. Good means evil. let's take our love, you fall in love means, Alain Badiou will probably talk about this to you later, which means you know, you get excessively attached, you throw yourself to the end…

…But I am even more a pessimist now than I was. Because, you know, even our good friend who will be here in August, Alain Badiou, wrote a book where he reached these awakenings, as it were, from Wall Street to to Tahrir Square and so on. Didn't he…

…big awakening. Even if it's not a Marxist, but this idea that, and I'm here even having like 5% ironic step at our good friend Alain Badiou, who also I think is basically, if I may put it like this, one of those who wait for the event, you know. It…

…account and so on and so on. I claim that maybe a much more productive way would have been to begin with what Alain Badiou noted And the true changes in the structure of the world are changes in the status of this impossibility, which does not simply…

…You kind of get caught into a circle. So, now, in order to avoid me getting caught into a circle, I will conclude with Alain Badiou. It is here, I think, that a future polemical point against Badiou that I think we should reject, I tend to reject his…

…caught into a circle, I will conclude with Alain Badiou. It is here, I think, that a future polemical point against Badiou that I think we should reject, I tend to reject his duality of human-animal and subject-animalism. human animals caught into our…

…So what I want to say is that I see the problem there in this idea of human... I think that what Badiou calls human-animal, of course there exists something like human-animal, but it's strictly a secondary ideological formation. And I think, this would be…

…back to Allain, I would like to supplement here, because would you allow me just really to conclude just one quote from Allain Badiou, which I find really problematic. It is from his, in English, the order of being. Here is the quote. We must point out…

…of, let's say, un-essence, non-essence with reference to facts and a judgment. Now, only one point. This is, I would say, what Badiou calls the voided animal, somehow. Right now, the whole question is, are you more a Cartesian than him or not? And this…

…now, the whole question is, are you more a Cartesian than him or not? And this would be my reducing reproach. Because for Badiou, the human animal is the voided animal precisely in these terms. There is a non-essence. which then can be doomed via the…

…is about placing the void. So if you're saying the void is proto-subjective via calling it drive, You're more catechism than Badiou. Because Badiou would say there is something void in the situation from which a subject effect, an effect of subjectivation…

…placing the void. So if you're saying the void is proto-subjective via calling it drive, You're more catechism than Badiou. Because Badiou would say there is something void in the situation from which a subject effect, an effect of subjectivation can happen.…

…precisely what makes the human subject in touch with an infinite as a break out of the finitude of nature. But precisely in Badiou, being, in its most benign sense, is infinite. So the distinction isn't at all cast along those lines. And I think the…

…was just a neutral example. But still, the first point that you mentioned, what I don't see is precisely the problematic point of Badiou is that to be even more brutal now. He promises to do something in his logics of the world, to elaborate the passage…

…pulling you, you go. You sink? You sink slowly. so it's done that I'm slowly disappearing and then I do some stupid Alain Badiou revolutionary talk like all the ice in the world cannot kill revolutionary idea I will come back so I disappear but then…

…with it, not in any sense of any totalitarian temptation, but we became aware of... Here we have the true version of what... Alain Badiou said, maybe in a little bit, even for me, too provocative forum, but I like him for that. You know when Badiou…

…Alain Badiou said, maybe in a little bit, even for me, too provocative forum, but I like him for that. You know when Badiou said, the name of the enemy today is not capitalism, imperialism, blah, blah. The name of the enemy is democracy. No, he wasn't…

…make things more attractive. Now, Hollywood is deleting sex. I am tempted to link this to another phenomenon, which my good friend Alain Badiou, he drew my attention to it. Namely, he read one of these, in a French daily newspaper, one of these ads for…

…moment, without what? In English and in French, we use happily the same expression, tomber, to fall in love. And my friend Alain Badiou drew my attention to the fact that he found one publicity in a daily newspaper in France for a certain matrimonial…

…was a materialist, in a radical sense. For Plato, Platonists, and I hear I have a problem with my good friend Alain Badiou, I totally sympathize with his rehabilitation of Plato against Aristotle. I think there are some problems like, you know, if Plato's…

…that I am unfair towards the suffering because of American imperialism, blah, blah. And then China. The idea is, even my friend Badiou, if you read his book on the idea of communism, I think it's there, not on the idea, communist hypothesis. Isn't there…

…instead of reading the notion of idea in Badiou's sense, which is for me a little bit too neo-Kantian still, and incidentally when Badiou defends himself that he is not a neo-Kantian, well, fuck him, he refers to Kant. Not in a communist hypothesis, in a…

…sorry. You know, at least I can tell you this. I'm only childishly, tastelessly aggressive towards my close friends. Which holds also for Alain Badiou, my god. He's my best friend. And the only way to prove it is to stick the knife into him all the…

…is to stick the knife into him all the time. No, that's life. Okay, no, no, but let's go more seriously. This is now Alain Badiou at his best. He tried recently in a text published two years ago in Cardozo Law Review. I don't think it was reprinted…

…principle of non-contradiction, A and non-A cannot be true at the same time, and the principle of the excluded middle. Now, as Badiou goes on, there are of course here four logical possibilities. Both could be valid, you cancel or renounce one or the…

…four logical possibilities. Both could be valid, you cancel or renounce one or the other, or you cancel, violate both. Badiou begins with dismissing this last fourth possibility, a negation which obeys neither the excluded middle nor the non-contradiction. For…

…begins with dismissing this last fourth possibility, a negation which obeys neither the excluded middle nor the non-contradiction. For Badiou, this is something simply inconsistent, equivalent to complete dissolution of all negativity. I will try to prove that…

…equivalent to complete dissolution of all negativity. I will try to prove that he's a little bit too fast here. So Badiou goes on. focusing on the three remaining consistent forms, each of them fitting a certain logical framework. First we have a…

…which still obeys the principle of contradiction but it doesn't obey the principle of the excluded middle. This is for Badiou the intuitionistic logic, brouhaha, hating, and so on. And then we have third possibility, negation which obeys the excluded middle,…

…in fully assuming your guilt and so on. So, as expected, Badiou's royal example is here revolution. The communist revolution for Badiou is classical, a radical confrontation with no third option. It's either us or them. The poor worker who before the…

…negation gets caught in the game. So the only way out, this would be my solution, is the fourth option, dismissed by Badiou. but which I think should be given a different reading. My option is that both principles should be negated. The principle of…

…in its precariousness and fragility, mortality, and so on, that this description has exactly the same structure as in Alain Badiou, the structure of immortality, eternity. And Butler is fully justified to emphasize that this ethical injunction, this encounter…

…even I can admit it. Like, because he is from there, He's also an excellent theorist. He did a wonderful analysis of Laclau, Badiou, me, critical towards all of us. But the reaction in the West is always, but you come from there, why don't you write…

…which guarantees the undisturbed functioning of the capitalist reproduction. In this sense only, although I find this statement today problematic, Alain Badiou was right, or at least made the right point, with his crazy claim that today the name of the…

…function on its own. And he was a little bit perplexed and then he said, well, Chinese cultural revolution. And you know, me and Badiou, we were a little bit shocked because, I mean, if there ever was a failure, that was one. I mean, for me, now quite…

…Negri here? Again, I appreciate him very much. I said publicly in Berlin, at some level I am with Negri even against Badiou. The problem with Badiou for me is the same problem as with all this let's call them French or French-oriented political…

…appreciate him very much. I said publicly in Berlin, at some level I am with Negri even against Badiou. The problem with Badiou for me is the same problem as with all this let's call them French or French-oriented political philosophers, Ranciere, up to a…

…think that the lesson of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is much more tragic one. What we should abandon, here I agree with Badiou, is not only The state socialist forum of the left of the 20th century, what we usually call communist states, although…

…a little bit even for terror. No, I'm not, but I'm ready to say something. We have something that Alain Badiou calls the eternal constant invariant of revolutionary egalitarian justice, composed of four features. Strict egalitarian justice, terror, voluntarism,…

…justice, composed of four features. Strict egalitarian justice, terror, voluntarism, and trust in the people. You can guess from this that Badiou is a Maoist. But just to provoke you, I would like to say something. But will not the ecological crisis at…

…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,…

…whole point is what kind of violence. I would like to begin by the most elementary levels of insights. My good friend Alain Badiou, recently being accused of using insights, insults, wrote something wonderful in a letter to Le Monde, I think. Here is the…

…of using insights, insults, wrote something wonderful in a letter to Le Monde, I think. Here is the quote from Alain Badiou. What characterizes politics, even if capital or parliamentarism enforces its domination up to making us forget it, is that in…

…basic ontology of modernity, which here I greatly appreciate, of course, a figure like Quentin Meillassoux, you know, that follower of Badiou, who I think of natural laws, not only contingency in the sense that they allow for contingency, that they are not…

…you cannot do a kind of a rational deduction of natural laws. Here, if I may give a slight friendly critical remarks to Alain Badiou, here I don't quite agree with his notion of mathematics as ontology, maybe ontology but not science. I think that a as…

…talk, that's the direction I would have taken. What I reject, together with my good colleague, theoretical friend and practical Alain Badiou, what I reject is precisely the modesty of this, let's call it, post-secular theology. The thought is often called…

…one to another hardware so we can indefinitely reproduce ourselves so that's an interesting reversal where I am together with Alain Badiou on the side of infinity here not this Vulgar materialist infinity, but nonetheless an infinity. If nothing else, the…

…already before when we were up there in that more restrained seminar, I'm thinking more in these terms. For example, Alain Badiou says something in a very nice way that although a certain impossibility remains, but its status can change radically. For…

…Jacques Lacan calls real, le real, is the point of impossibility within a field of reality. Along the same lines, what for Alain Badiou defines a world? and I think this is crucial when you read him, is not primarily the positive qualities, features of a…

…the two things. Either move a little bit towards democracy, He can then, okay, he has many options in the space of what Badiou yesterday so nicely defined as this space of para-consistency and so on. He can say, yes, in principle, in the long term, but…

…and now just if you permit me a provocative conclusion, my point is that the ABC, and this is connected to what Badiou was developing yesterday as this para-consistency and so on, that we are caught in a certain antagonism that imposes itself as the…

…of the subject of let's call it radical emancipatory struggle is invisible. Here, I would like to conclude with a quote from Badiou, where he makes the same point. Namely, the idea is that in today's era of hedonist permissivity as the ruling ideology, I…

…to reappropriate discipline, the spirit of sacrifice, and so on. There is nothing inherently fascist about these values. Or, a quote from Badiou. This is the secret, but it's a little bit too radical for his public image. He said this in an interview in…

…the history of Christianity. The same goes, for example, this is a nice example of what is historicity. Pascal, this is why Alain Badiou, who will torture you in the afternoon, likes Pascal. He wrote, I think somewhere in his Being and Event, a very nice…

…post-Hegelian break didn't happen. What was this break? It's easy to establish. It was a kind of a, it was basically what Badiou likes The idea is that the scene of philosophy, of philosophical ideas, is perceived as a secondary scene of representation, a…

…idea. It is idea thinking, which is just predicate of a real life asserting individuals and so on and so on. This is what Badiou refers to as anti-philosophy. That is to say, this idea that if at least you can, and then there are, Of course, other…

…of points. First, I totally agree with your basic reading, which, to shock you, is also a reading of your, probably enemy, Alain Badiou, namely that it's wrong to read these riots as some kind of Islamic fundamentalism or what. You were totally right. The…

…be established and it is this reference to commons which I think justifies the resuscitation of the notion of communism or to quote Alain Badiou he likes to play a soft guy here I want to embarrass him would he do this here I'm quoting now from his…

…do not fit the existing social order, you know, that's the old idea by Marx taken over by Ranciere, by Badiou and so on, that universality is not simply all encompassing universality. Universality doesn't mean I'm particular, you're particular, you're…

…oh, everything is totally chaotic ultimately and so on and so on? No. What survived after the big other? I'm here for Badiou, eternal ideas, the platonic domain survives, but not a substantial big other, it's a pure appearance. What do I mean by this?…

…if, you know, this heroic notion of truth is too strong for us human beings. We prefer appearances and this would be what Badiou called the passion of the real. You know, truth is this raw flesh which hurts. Are we strong enough to confront the truth?…

…Google is a good thing, internet. You put my stupid name, December, New York, and you get it. Thanks very much. What were you saying? That you will denounce me to Badiou now? Now? To Badiou? Yes. Turning around as if I was responsible for all this.

…Google is a good thing, internet. You put my stupid name, December, New York, and you get it. Thanks very much. What were you saying? That you will denounce me to Badiou now? Now? To Badiou? Yes. Turning around as if I was responsible for all this.

…form of collective. And this, I think, it's deeply... It's why many thinkers, philosophers to whom I feel very close, like from Alain Badiou to Giorgio Agamben and so on, are so focused on St. Paul. St. Paul is for them a political project of precisely…

…again, quantum physics offers a model of how to think such open ontology. And I claim, ruthlessly manipulating him, that Alain Badiou formulated the same idea in his notion of pure multiplicity as the ultimate ontological category. Reality is the multiplicity…

…and zero are the same thing. Zero is multiplicities without ones which would guarantee their ontological consistencies. So when Badiou speaks about multiplicities and the void, his point is not this vulgar, democrit one. You know, you immediately think,…

…or later substantializes it secretly introduces some kind of a vulgar materialism. Simply, consciousness becomes just another substance. So, with Badiou, it's the same. The whole problem of event is precisely event, but event is not a stupid people accused…

…nobody talked about Christianity unless, of course, you wanted to critique it. And even when philosophers like Jacques Derrida or Alain Badiou would talk about Christianity, it was because they were making religious turns in their old age as opposed to…

…Persecution corrupts the victims, though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. End of quote. Cecile Winter, a collaborator of Alain Badiou, recently proposed along these lines a nice mental experiment. Imagine Israel as it is in its destiny of the last…

…victim and thus beyond moral reproach what we thus get is a standard story of colonization so why should we as Alain Badiou proposes abstract from the Holocaust when we judge the Israeli politics towards Palestinians my answer yes we should but not because…

…On the one hand, Stalinism is maybe one of the most brutal regimes in the sense of what the French philosopher Alain Badiou called the passion of the real. This brutal disposing, instrumentalizing, using of the people. No. No. But Stalinism is not simply…

…atheist does not choose atheism. For him, the The last remark with which I would like to return to my starting quote from Alain Badiou about this pitiless, the need for us to become pitiless saints or that is to say how we should reject this injunction…

…situation is today, again, with regard to enjoyment, extremely paradoxical. I would like here to refer to another unpublished writing by Badiou, where he speaks about the cut, how today meaning and truth can no longer overlap. with which, with whom meaning,…

…to a double function of psychoanalysis today. A. Its message is not relax, get rid of prohibitions. Its message is, as Alain Badiou put it in wonderful terms, You should learn to become a pitiless changer of yourself. The role of psychoanalysis today is…

…the one, and here, I think there are some legitimate links, but I'm proceeding very fast, between all this relation and what Alain Badiou was explaining to you with all these formulas. That is to say, how... The minimum, the minimal matrix of this tension…

…of truth. And I think the way Lacan refers here to the notion of truth, it has something to do with the way Alain Badiou does it. What do I mean by this? As we all know, in psychoanalysis especially, we know how Knowledge does not necessarily involve…

…ethical category, horizon, turns out to be respect for otherness. As if, you know, that's the ultimate horizon. Here, let me quote Alain Badiou from an interview he made with this art journal, Cabinet, where he made a point with which I agree. Quote, I…