05 April 2005
email change
as the cinestatic mail is now full, and I can't bear to delete the messages, I have created a new contact: infinitethought@hotmail.co.uk.
I was recently published in a journal in discussion with Simon Critchley and others about Badiou. My bit goes like this:
'Critchley: There's a risk in subtraction, or throwing out the pathetic baby with the bathwater!
Me: But pathos simply happens all the time.
C: No, it's not what happens all the time.
Me: But it is.
C: I think the opposite.
Me: Pathos is everywhere, everyday. It's every tiny tragedy of every cake you didn't get to eat or every friend you miss or whatever. It happens all the time. Surely what is interesting about Badiou's project is its subtractive dimension?'
Man, do I feel proud about that particular exchange.
I was recently published in a journal in discussion with Simon Critchley and others about Badiou. My bit goes like this:
'Critchley: There's a risk in subtraction, or throwing out the pathetic baby with the bathwater!
Me: But pathos simply happens all the time.
C: No, it's not what happens all the time.
Me: But it is.
C: I think the opposite.
Me: Pathos is everywhere, everyday. It's every tiny tragedy of every cake you didn't get to eat or every friend you miss or whatever. It happens all the time. Surely what is interesting about Badiou's project is its subtractive dimension?'
Man, do I feel proud about that particular exchange.
