Ha ha. Typical anti-academic (anti-intellectual?) slander. I think Badiou's philosophy is a dead-end, maybe even a trap, but he's also politically active and not just about provocating from lecture halls. And his appeal goes beyond white Euromales; he is, for instance, influential in Africa.
> there's A philosophy which can unpack it---called pragmatism, and which is now being repackaged by tenured radicals so it can be sold again as new. who knows, maybe the new packaging will have it take off. do the Marcusean 'capital as power', humans as corporthings, world as panopticon (i wonder if bentham ranks mention in 21st century policitcal economy, or maybe thats too upmaket) described withe matrix (the s-matrix of heisenberg, which essentially measures the entropy of the positive whole numbers, or negative if you take the p-adic version).<
Maybe you haven't noticed, but the world is not the same now as it was when pragmatism was first articulated over a century ago. It's a fine philosophy in its way, but things do change, and I appreciate thought that tries to change with it.