Tag Archives: Alain Badiou

a marxist built for 2

Trotsky in love. Whatever his initial motivations, Bronstein’s revolutionary career began under appropriately romantic auspices. He was introduced by school friends into a radical discussion group conducted by a self-educated Czech gardener named Franz Shvigovsky. Though the group’s subversive activities … Continue reading

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sinking feeling

To Marxists, capitalisms imminent sinking was symbolic in the Titanic. A hundred years later the Commies fell into a pit and capitalism is still around; heavily flawed and perhaps redeemable if the global plutocracy can be dismembered. Oh yeah, that … Continue reading

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diverting the flow of history

Just another new state; the least racial, the least religious, the least nationalistic of all states. The most universal of them all. The Martin Buber idea, his model of Israel as a template for a global revolution to change, read … Continue reading

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carry that weight

We are haunted by ghosts of the past, and the manner in which we deal with them either seems irrelevant and non-meaningful or they are invoked, insidiously, appropriating the theme of malevolence in an act of resurrection that is ultimately … Continue reading

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proceeding by learned recollection

Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading

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innovation or commodification

Do product patents reduce economic efficiency and cut back on technological innovation? Do the have-nots become more naught? Are free-markets just a catch-work for the elimination of job security? And what of our naive assumptions that technological solutions to political … Continue reading

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FIXING A HOLE: IN MEMORY OF WALLS AND BRIDGES

Are trauma and memory walls and bridges to the truth?… “The premise for this … film comes from an Ono film score, published in 1968: The cameraman will chase a girl on a street with a camera persistently until he … Continue reading

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