Alain Badiou, professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, lectures on set theory and mathematics at New York University. 29 November 2016. Featuring an introduction by Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, and Chair of Comparative Literature at NYU, and a response by Jacques Lezra, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, English, and […]

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http://www.egs.edu/ Alain Badiou lecturing about mathematical logic in relation to Aristotles book 4 of the Metaphysics, in particular on the proposition of the excluded middle and its relation to the event as creative novelty. He proposes that of the four types of logic it is the fourth type of negation—the negation that obeys neither the […]

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http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about three possibilities concerning an absolute beginning. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses the singleton of the void, the absolute difference between zero and one, returning to classicism, naming and exteriority in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze […]

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Clique est allé à la rencontre du philosophe Alain Badiou. On a parlé de l’Amour, d’abord. Cette fois-ci, c’est au tour de la haine. Retour sur les mécanismes d’intégration au Jihad, l’ostentation inhérente à la culture hip hop, la place des femmes dans nos sociétés actuelles. Abonnez-vous à la chaîne Clique : http://bit.ly/10UoT5i Toutes les […]

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This talk was held as a part of the symposium “Event in Artistic and Political Practices” (26.-28.03.2013) in Amsterdam

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