10 February 2005
subtraction
Ya bitches,
well, Peter H (he of Badiou monograph fame) gave a paper tonight about the, erm, trajectory (bad English reception of French terminology, mais oui), of the concept of "subtraction" in recent French philosophy - Michel Henry, Deleuze, Badiou. Pics by Kandinsky, Bacon. Ok, is there a taut, problematic, question of the relation between subtraction and abstraction? Yes. Ok, is there a desire for a form of secularisation of the infinite that escapes overcoding by the debates about secularisation that, like, happened before (Blumenberg and Lowith: the form remains but filled with different content; the content remains, but the form has changed)...Tough call....
well, Peter H (he of Badiou monograph fame) gave a paper tonight about the, erm, trajectory (bad English reception of French terminology, mais oui), of the concept of "subtraction" in recent French philosophy - Michel Henry, Deleuze, Badiou. Pics by Kandinsky, Bacon. Ok, is there a taut, problematic, question of the relation between subtraction and abstraction? Yes. Ok, is there a desire for a form of secularisation of the infinite that escapes overcoding by the debates about secularisation that, like, happened before (Blumenberg and Lowith: the form remains but filled with different content; the content remains, but the form has changed)...Tough call....
