http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory/...dfs/ Jenckes.pdf

if above link doesn't work, google the phrase "thinking the multiple" to go there.
hum | 06.15.05 - 11:54 am | #

Thanks very much for that, hum. I'm coming to Badiou a bit late, but the detour through Blanchot (in order to better appreciate, or perhaps begin appreciating Derrida) was well worth it.
Matt | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 2:10 pm | #

you are quite welcome. and thanks, for posting the celan poem.
badiou is important and well worth the effort, it seems to me, even though i have grave reservations regarding certain aspects of his philosophical project.
derrida and blanchot, i consider - as you might suspect - utterly indispensable.
anyway, i just posted another 'comment' on charlotte street, to perhaps foster some further discussion. perhaps from those inclined to take badiou's position?
hum | 06.15.05 - 3:04 pm | #

There are a number of Badiou-inspired bloggers about (for instance here, here and here). If you ever wanted to venture a guest-post querying along those lines, either here, or on Long Sunday, feel free to drop an email my way. That would a debate most welcome.
Matt | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 3:33 pm | #

I've suggested (on CS) that the passage in Badiou where he insists on the expulsion of the poets as an essential prcondition of philosophy might be an excellent starting point for a discussion. I don't yet have a copy of Manifesto For Philosophy, but will get one!
mark Kaplan | Homepage | 06.15.05 - 4:34 pm | #

matt and mark, i'd look forward to such a discussion. thanks for providing spaces for transients comme moi. and apologies for that last garbled post on charlotte street written in unseemly haste on one screen while trying to complete a work-task on another screen.
and matt, perhaps there is a link to be made between our little discussion of agamben and this one?
for example, is there ever simply "bare life"? can "la vie nue" ever appear, present itself without some form of technology (techne)? in that passage you quote from "dim stockings" what does agamben mean by "physis of rememblance"?
do such questions go at all in the direction of yours regarding agamben?
hum | 06.15.05 - 7:54 pm | #