badiou on the financial crisis
[Hot off the keyboard, a quick translation of Badiou's piece from yesterday's Le Monde <http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2008/10/17/de-quel-reel-cette-crise-est-elle-le-spectacle-par-alain-badiou_1108118_3232.html>. Translation by myself and ICR <http://conjunctural.blogspot.com/>.]
Of Which Real is this Crisis the Spectacle? Alain Badiou, Le Monde, 17/10/08.
As it is presented to us, the planetary financial crisis resembles one of those bad films concocted by that factory for the production of pre-packaged blockbusters that today we call the "cinema". Nothing is missing, including terrifying plotlines: it is impossible to avert Black Friday, everything is collapsing, everything will collapse...
http://cinestatic.com/infinitethought/index.asp