On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Eric wrote:
> Yeah, right. Actually, it will be his job as an intellectual to
> devise the "the new relation between the political movement and the
> level of the ideological." (By the way, I love that he mentions his
> gaze: "the Moroccan I see.")
Every time I hear Badiou's name, I think of Zizek's Lenin conference in Essen back in 2000 or 2001. Badiou was unable to come, so his paper was read by a woman (one of only two women who gave papers, out of 19 total, and the other woman was Slavoj's then-girlfriend). Introducing his paper, she said that back in the old days, rich people could buy their way out of military service. And since Badiou "is a rich man," he was buying his way out of coming to the conference.
Doug