04 February 2005
negri link & c.
Consistently excellent blog a gauche has put up a link to the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, which includes an interesting review of Hardt and Negri's Multitude, and some slightly strange articles about things like Pascal, theology and gambling.
In other news, Mark Kaplan of also ace blog charlotte street has a little discussion of music 'as ersatz spirit', which hooks up with the quote I posted yesterday. He also posts an equation which intrigues, namely: Marx’s critique of abstract equality) + (Sartre’s notion of seriality) = Badiou on democracy, which interestingly links into a discussion on dissensus on Badiou, and bat's suggestion that "the recent English language reception of Badiou overstates the Sartrean influence, placing too much emphasis (or the wrong emphasis) on the "void". This tends to reduce Badiou's ontology to a latter day negative theology, and consequently misread the event as some kind of "miracle"...". Now, I'm not sure who Bat is referring to here (surely not that one line from Charlotte Street!), but would definitely reiterate the argument that, whilst clearly not down with the Sartrean 'subject of history', Badiou is nevertheless concerned (especially in the later works) to conceive of politics in markedly similar ways to Sartre in 1960 - the 'apocalyptic' coming together of the group-in-fusion, most particularly. Clearly, comparing Sartre's early phenomeno-miserablist ontology of hostile stares and holes to Badiou's set-theoretical ontology is a bit of a mistake, but skipping the ontology and going to the politics of each is much more interesting - reckon Badiou would take Sartre's destructive mass revolts over Hardt and Negri's 'politics of joy' anyday.
In other news, Mark Kaplan of also ace blog charlotte street has a little discussion of music 'as ersatz spirit', which hooks up with the quote I posted yesterday. He also posts an equation which intrigues, namely: Marx’s critique of abstract equality) + (Sartre’s notion of seriality) = Badiou on democracy, which interestingly links into a discussion on dissensus on Badiou, and bat's suggestion that "the recent English language reception of Badiou overstates the Sartrean influence, placing too much emphasis (or the wrong emphasis) on the "void". This tends to reduce Badiou's ontology to a latter day negative theology, and consequently misread the event as some kind of "miracle"...". Now, I'm not sure who Bat is referring to here (surely not that one line from Charlotte Street!), but would definitely reiterate the argument that, whilst clearly not down with the Sartrean 'subject of history', Badiou is nevertheless concerned (especially in the later works) to conceive of politics in markedly similar ways to Sartre in 1960 - the 'apocalyptic' coming together of the group-in-fusion, most particularly. Clearly, comparing Sartre's early phenomeno-miserablist ontology of hostile stares and holes to Badiou's set-theoretical ontology is a bit of a mistake, but skipping the ontology and going to the politics of each is much more interesting - reckon Badiou would take Sartre's destructive mass revolts over Hardt and Negri's 'politics of joy' anyday.
