08 April 2005
return of undercurrent
Without his translations we are nothing. My Persian pals, in particular, might enjoy this interview with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem (novelist, philosopher, filmstar and, er, Badiou's mate): 'The Iranians, they're a superior people, extremely complex.' I don't disagree....
There's another Kacem piece at this extraordinary site, a bilingual (fr/eng) 'interactive emergent multifield review of art and essays'.
Back to undercurrent's translation: both Kacem and Rémy Bac have some splendid lines:
'I had a discussion with a young Derridean not far from here and this is the reflex of Derrideans: You try to explain to them that Althusser really understood something of Marx, and straight away, they tell you that that's dogmatism. That's the reflex of social democracy.'
'So, 'Deleuze, everyone's mum!', no thanks.'
'Everyone thinks. Everyone thinks, but philosophy thinks about thought, that's the only difference.'
Wonder if undercurrent will translate the other Ironie Mehdi Belhaj Kacem interview at some point, but definitely hope he'll get round to producing an English version of Event and Repetition.
There's another Kacem piece at this extraordinary site, a bilingual (fr/eng) 'interactive emergent multifield review of art and essays'.
Back to undercurrent's translation: both Kacem and Rémy Bac have some splendid lines:
'I had a discussion with a young Derridean not far from here and this is the reflex of Derrideans: You try to explain to them that Althusser really understood something of Marx, and straight away, they tell you that that's dogmatism. That's the reflex of social democracy.'
'So, 'Deleuze, everyone's mum!', no thanks.'
'Everyone thinks. Everyone thinks, but philosophy thinks about thought, that's the only difference.'
Wonder if undercurrent will translate the other Ironie Mehdi Belhaj Kacem interview at some point, but definitely hope he'll get round to producing an English version of Event and Repetition.
