What does ‘deconstruction’ mean? Towards the end of his life, Derrida liked very much to say that, if there was one thing that had to be deconstructed, as a matter of urgency, it was deconstruction, the word deconstruction. Deconstruction had become something in the academic repertory. To give it a meaning was, in a sense, [...]
A philosophical tribute is what I believe to be the fitting tribute. A tribute that signals the gap and gives it a power of its own. In order to pay that tribute, I need a few preliminaries, and I will give them here in an extremely simple form.
A justified simplicity. For there was, beneath the [...]
The growing list of movies dealing with utopian/dystopian issues can not be simply dismissed as a Hollywood capitalization of our consumer need for or addiction to widescreen rehearsals of a humanity in crisis, facing apocalypse or enduring to the point of near extinction: catastrophe. Or rather the need is there but for not obvious reasons. [...]
From Badiou’s new preface to the 2009 edition of l’Antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein:
Excerpt from Alain Badiou’s l’Antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein
Translating a bit from Badiou’s L’Hypothese Communiste