[lbo-talk] reading badiou -- worth it? (was: Review of Badiou's Number)

[wrobert at uci.edu]

My issue with the concept of the event (or should I say the EVENT) is that
there seems to be something deeply theological to it... I would be curious
to why this is not the case, and why it is a more useful concept than say,
some Althusser's concepts of the conjuncture.  robert wood


> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Jeffrey Fisher<jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> fidelity of course in this context reminds one of heidegger in not-good
>> ways, but badiou is not unaware of this issue. whether his answers are
>> good
>> enough is, of course, a separate matter.
>
> I can't read "fidelity to the event" without thinking of camps, show
> trials, purges, and the like. That's probably unfair, but he hasn't
> yet shown me why I should think differently.
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