14TH LECTURE AT THE GRAMSCI MONUMENT, THE BRONX, NYC: 14TH JULY 2013 ON BADIOU MARCUS STEINWEG
BOOK COVER
WHY ALAIN BADIOU ?
1. BECAUSE BADIOU IS INSISTING ON THE NECESSITY TO “LIVE WITH AN IDEA”
2. BECAUSE TO LIVE WITH AN IDEA IMPLIES A SELFTRANSGRESSION OF THE SUBJECT TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN.
3. BECAUSE THE UNKNOWN APPEARS AS AN EVENT IN BADIOUS ONTOLOGY. AS SOMETHING THAT DISTURBS & CORRUPTS THE ORDER OF FACTS.
4. BECAUSE THE CORRUPTION OF THE SYSTEM OF FACTS IS THE VERY MOMENT OF TRUTH.
5. BECAUSE BADIOU MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE & TRUTH.
6. BECAUSE THIS DISTINCTION IS THE DISTINCTION SYMBOLIC-REAL.
7. BECAUSE THE AFFIRMATION OF THIS DISTINCTION IS THE AFFIRMATION OF THE EMERGENCE OF SOMETHING NEW.
8. BECAUSE TO INSIST ON THE POSSIBILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, OF AN EVENT, ALREADY MEANS TO INSIST ON IT AS THE “CREATION OF NEW POSSIBILIES.”
9. BECAUSE BADIOUS ETHICS OF THE REAL IS AN ETHICS OF THE NEW.
10. BECAUSE SUCH AN ETHICS DEMANDS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE STATUS QUO OF THE SUBJECTS SITUATION WITHIN THE IMMANENCE OF THE ONE WORLD.
11. BECAUSE BADIOU RENEWS THE COMMUNIST HYPOTHESIS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF TODAY.
12. BECAUSE HIS PHILOSOPHICAL MILITANTISM FOR TRUTH IMPLIES THE FIGHT AGAINST ALL FORMS OF ESOTERICS & OBSCURANTISM.
13. BECAUSE HE MAKES OUT OF THE HUMAN SUBJECT AN ACTIVE PLACEHOLDER OF A POSSIBLE TRUTH.