Robin over at Irrational Numbers has superb posts and photographs on a recent conference (“Is the politics of truth still thinkable?”) that included Badiou and was organised by Zizek. My favourite line is one of Robin’s:
Anyhow it did serve strikingly to take me right back to AntiOedipus: oh, how marxists and lacanians alike flinch violently at the very suggestion of some positive desire – as if torching cars isn’t fun! As if there were something positively indecent in the idea, that pleasure could admix with political anger.
Oh, chortle…
I have also been meaning to post links to two of Robin’s other posts that should be read (here and here). I wish I had the capacity to engage in some intelligent way.
Can anyone host the two sound files one of Zizek’s talk and one of Badiou’s?
Hi Glen…hey, I should have known you’d like that line, being a notorious hoon 😉
ps the MP3s are now available, along with a transcript of the Badiou (hell, even I’m not dedicated enough to transcribe Zizek.)
Forget Zizek
http://zlomislic.blogspot.com/2006/07/to-beyond-lacan-and-zizeks_115383870544492449.html