Comments for http://www.lacan.com/thevideos Thu, 13 May 2010 19:40:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Alain Badiou – Truth Art as a Place for Politics without Place? by anxiety symptom http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=23&cpage=1#comment-593 anxiety symptom Thu, 13 May 2010 19:40:59 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=23#comment-593 <strong>anxiety symptom...</strong> You appear to be offering a good quality different view here. Are you going to write more on this topic?... anxiety symptom…

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]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is Communism the Answer to the Crisis? by Andre http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=74&cpage=1#comment-85 Andre Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:10:52 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=74#comment-85 Thanks! Great! I was a little put off by his book on Deleuze, but since then, I've become more interested in Lyotard - though his works suffer also, though less so. So I may look into Badiou's other works. Thanks! Great! I was a little put off by his book on Deleuze, but since then, I’ve become more interested in Lyotard – though his works suffer also, though less so. So I may look into Badiou’s other works.

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by lebas http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-74 lebas Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:20:34 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-74 Silex: you be so deep and 'ticulate. You've shown me the error of my non-compliance. CharlesJ.: "Radical equality" and neo-liberal "democracy" have proved malevolent handmaidens to psychoanalysis, decrying the unconscious as programmatically inconvenient. Is the ideology of Washington, New York or Brussels really Capitalism? Not as Marx would have recognized it, even in Grundrisse. Hasn't this past year suggested that this messianism for "change," "activism" isn't even political: the masters stay. So let's grow up? We really don't have to remains the obedient "red guards" of the left, right or société du spectacle. Silex: you be so deep and ‘ticulate. You’ve shown me the error of my non-compliance. CharlesJ.: “Radical equality” and neo-liberal “democracy” have proved malevolent handmaidens to psychoanalysis, decrying the unconscious as programmatically inconvenient. Is the ideology of Washington, New York or Brussels really Capitalism? Not as Marx would have recognized it, even in Grundrisse. Hasn’t this past year suggested that this messianism for “change,” “activism” isn’t even political: the masters stay. So let’s grow up? We really don’t have to remains the obedient “red guards” of the left, right or société du spectacle.

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by Silexus http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-66 Silexus Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:30:43 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-66 Sean Lebas. Yours is the ultimate load of hogwash. I could make a hundred takes of your screed by recombining adjectives and it would not make an iota of difference in the degree of meaninglessness. That is your difference with Badiou. Sean Lebas. Yours is the ultimate load of hogwash. I could make a hundred takes of your screed by recombining adjectives and it would not make an iota of difference in the degree of meaninglessness. That is your difference with Badiou.

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by J. Charles http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-54 J. Charles Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:54:27 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-54 ome questions: that you say that there is no "great human project," or that it has nothing to do with "radical equality," or that there is a "properly united destiny of humanity," is as axiomatic or dogmatic, if you like, as their affirmation. Why, though, are they counter-valent to the Lacanian project, whose very ethical injunction is "encore?" What other word would you use to describe what "the human future is battling," if not capitalism? Whose 40 years is "ultimately ineffectual activism?" And, finally, where can change come from, if it can come at all, if it must come, if it is, at all? ome questions: that you say that there is no “great human project,” or that it has nothing to do with “radical equality,” or that there is a “properly united destiny of humanity,” is as axiomatic or dogmatic, if you like, as their affirmation. Why, though, are they counter-valent to the Lacanian project, whose very ethical injunction is “encore?” What other word would you use to describe what “the human future is battling,” if not capitalism? Whose 40 years is “ultimately ineffectual activism?” And, finally, where can change come from, if it can come at all, if it must come, if it is, at all?

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by Sean Lebas http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-53 Sean Lebas Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:51:04 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-53 Thank you for posting this video. This gentle entreaty of Badiou’s to try harder, politicize differently and find new ‘possibilities’ at the margins of formations is modest, chaste but rich. A soixante-huitard citing Sartre without ridicule is a strange curiosity. As is his emphatic insistence that “communism” isn’t his objet a.But even more curious is his sentimental journey through the hagiography of lost causes: doing exactly what Foucault advised against, e.g., imagining we are at a formative moment of consciousness resembling that of the militants of the 19th century or that the human future is battling against something that resembles anything like ‘capitalism,’ let alone specifically the cynical capitalism of the 19th century. He’s not actually stretching the dominant discourse with these antiquarian musings.Badiou is a wonderful teacher, a gifted elaborator and—granted—both of these curiosities are pedagogic illustrations, throw-aways, for the gallery. But I wonder whether Badiou is also giving away that his Nom-du-Père is a brother of Chomsky’s: instructing him that the great human project must have something to do with “radical equality” or that there is a “properly united destiny of humanity.” Well, of course, it doesn’t and there isn’t one. But neither have these clichés, as dogmas, nurtured the anomalous.Remember—“eventfully,” in Badiou’s terminology—Chomsky finally told Foucault on TV in 1971 (paraphrasing here) I can’t connect the dots, but I have to believe, there have to be goals and, of course, Chomsky’s got the right ones. Foucault response was prescient: and history divided.I remember in March of 1971 Hannah Arendt instructed the underclass-persons assembled in the Vassar chapel that since we were intelligent, civilized and macro-morally correct we would intuitively make correct tactical and strategic micro-decisions. Deluded within the dominant discourse this generation trotted out and toiled as neo-liberalism’s unwitting red guards, frightened but arrogant and politically correct pawns from hell. It wasn’t an evolutionary moment!I am suggesting these ideological sub-routines are as harmless to authority as religions and are—in fact—the handmaidens of the dominant discourses. What Badiou calls capitalism, those unrelenting holdover political and economic regimes that no longer resemble capitalism, the counter-revolution, aren’t the least bit threatened by organizing visions of equality, democratic justice and a shared human destiny.Foucault sensed that change can’t come from this place. After 40 years of ultimately ineffectual activism shouldn’t we take the hint? These dogmas seem so counter-valent to the Lacanian project! Thank you for posting this video. This gentle entreaty of Badiou’s to try harder, politicize differently and find new ‘possibilities’ at the margins of formations is modest, chaste but rich. A soixante-huitard citing Sartre without ridicule is a strange curiosity. As is his emphatic insistence that “communism” isn’t his objet a.But even more curious is his sentimental journey through the hagiography of lost causes: doing exactly what Foucault advised against, e.g., imagining we are at a formative moment of consciousness resembling that of the militants of the 19th century or that the human future is battling against something that resembles anything like ‘capitalism,’ let alone specifically the cynical capitalism of the 19th century. He’s not actually stretching the dominant discourse with these antiquarian musings.Badiou is a wonderful teacher, a gifted elaborator and—granted—both of these curiosities are pedagogic illustrations, throw-aways, for the gallery. But I wonder whether Badiou is also giving away that his Nom-du-Père is a brother of Chomsky’s: instructing him that the great human project must have something to do with “radical equality” or that there is a “properly united destiny of humanity.” Well, of course, it doesn’t and there isn’t one. But neither have these clichés, as dogmas, nurtured the anomalous.Remember—“eventfully,” in Badiou’s terminology—Chomsky finally told Foucault on TV in 1971 (paraphrasing here) I can’t connect the dots, but I have to believe, there have to be goals and, of course, Chomsky’s got the right ones. Foucault response was prescient: and history divided.I remember in March of 1971 Hannah Arendt instructed the underclass-persons assembled in the Vassar chapel that since we were intelligent, civilized and macro-morally correct we would intuitively make correct tactical and strategic micro-decisions. Deluded within the dominant discourse this generation trotted out and toiled as neo-liberalism’s unwitting red guards, frightened but arrogant and politically correct pawns from hell. It wasn’t an evolutionary moment!I am suggesting these ideological sub-routines are as harmless to authority as religions and are—in fact—the handmaidens of the dominant discourses. What Badiou calls capitalism, those unrelenting holdover political and economic regimes that no longer resemble capitalism, the counter-revolution, aren’t the least bit threatened by organizing visions of equality, democratic justice and a shared human destiny.Foucault sensed that change can’t come from this place. After 40 years of ultimately ineffectual activism shouldn’t we take the hint? These dogmas seem so counter-valent to the Lacanian project!

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Truth Procedure in Arts by Daniel Sacilotto http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-49 Daniel Sacilotto Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:03:26 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17#comment-49 I was told that these lectures would be back online in August. It's October now, and we still haven't got them back. Please, this is very important material to share. Both this lecture and Truth Procedure in Politics are of extreme importance. I was told that these lectures would be back online in August. It’s October now, and we still haven’t got them back. Please, this is very important material to share. Both this lecture and Truth Procedure in Politics are of extreme importance.

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Truth Procedure in Arts by roux http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-48 roux Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:02:07 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17#comment-48 sorry but I agree with the previous post, the video is unhearable (inécoutable), it is apity for such important thoughts. But I am gratefull for the sharing of it! philippe roux sorry but I agree with the previous post, the video is unhearable (inécoutable), it is apity for such important thoughts.
But I am gratefull for the sharing of it!
philippe roux

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by Laurent MARTIN http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-45 Laurent MARTIN Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:59:57 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-45 Il apparait actuellement que la "DISSIDENCE" est le phénoméne majeur qui constitue le nouveau moteur de la lutte des classes dans une étape vers le communisme ... Cette étape Marx n' a pu l'analyser à son époque ... 150 ans plus tard ,il est possible de découvrir ce phénoméne à partir de l' analyse dialectique, materialisite de l' histoire ... Il apparait actuellement que la “DISSIDENCE” est le phénoméne majeur qui constitue le nouveau moteur de la lutte des classes dans une étape vers le communisme …

Cette étape Marx n’ a pu l’analyser à son époque …

150 ans plus tard ,il est possible de découvrir ce phénoméne à partir de l’ analyse dialectique, materialisite de l’ histoire …

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Truth Procedure in Arts by Daniel Sacilotto http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-16 Daniel Sacilotto Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:05:45 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17#comment-16 I never received any feedback with regards to my enquiry. This lecture and 'Truth Procedures in Politics' were some crucial lectures where Badiou sets out to explain some of his theories from Logiques. Now that we finally have the translation in our hands they could be very, very helpful. Please, put those lectures back online. The full versions, not these little 'previews'. Thanks. Daniel I never received any feedback with regards to my enquiry. This lecture and ‘Truth Procedures in Politics’ were some crucial lectures where Badiou sets out to explain some of his theories from Logiques. Now that we finally have the translation in our hands they could be very, very helpful.

Please, put those lectures back online. The full versions, not these little ‘previews’. Thanks.

Daniel

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Truth Procedure in Arts by Daniel Sacilotto http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17&cpage=1#comment-6 Daniel Sacilotto Sat, 02 May 2009 07:33:29 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=17#comment-6 I just want to ask why pulled down the full presentations which were available before. There really isn't a whole lot of availability for multimedia concerning these thinkers available to a general audience, so these lectures are invaluable for the dissemination of this thought. I think we can all agree in that, if we are to take Badiou or Zizek seriously, we have to facilitate this dissemination. I, for example, live in Peru, where we are in dire need of this material. The same applies to most places today. If its a matter of virtual space or the website; making these lectures available through youtube or any other free based video broadcast website might do it. It would also be a fantastic way to advertise the journal itself, since the volume of spectators intrigued by these authors would undoubtly rise considerably. Best, Daniel Sacilotto - (Philosophy student) I just want to ask why pulled down the full presentations which were available before. There really isn’t a whole lot of availability for multimedia concerning these thinkers available to a general audience, so these lectures are invaluable for the dissemination of this thought. I think we can all agree in that, if we are to take Badiou or Zizek seriously, we have to facilitate this dissemination. I, for example, live in Peru, where we are in dire need of this material. The same applies to most places today.

If its a matter of virtual space or the website; making these lectures available through youtube or any other free based video broadcast website might do it. It would also be a fantastic way to advertise the journal itself, since the volume of spectators intrigued by these authors would undoubtly rise considerably.

Best,
Daniel Sacilotto – (Philosophy student)

]]> Comment on Alain Badiou – Is the Word Communism Forever Doomed? by lola http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-3 lola Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:48:12 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=61#comment-3 Merci! Merci!

]]> Comment on Slavoj Žižek – Love Without Mercy by Nikki Moore http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-2 Nikki Moore Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:43:10 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/thevideos/?p=56#comment-2 the two of subjectivity: Zizek, Alenka Zupancic and Jonah Lehrer in Lacan's blindspot thoughts at http://prosthetics.wordpress.com/ the two of subjectivity:
Zizek, Alenka Zupancic and Jonah Lehrer in Lacan’s blindspot

thoughts at
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