In addition to Badiou's almost impenetrable verbosity, the book has no index where one might look up 'machines' or 'Descartes'. There is a supplement labeled Descartes/Lacan. Here Badiou states that "Freud can only be understood within the heritage of the Cartesian gesture. The subject of psychoanalysis is none other than the subject of science." He reformulates the cogito as 'Cogito ergo sum' ubi cogito , ibi sum.' That's as far as I got. m.a.
----- Original Message ----- From: Bruno Marchal To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Badiou Hi Marty, On 25 May 2011, at 02:45, m.a. wrote: Hi Bruno, I was looking through Alain Badiou's Being and Event and seemed to see ideas that accorded with your philosophy. Was I wrong? marty a. I don't know. Badious is too much verbose, so I am not sure how to interpret it. They might be a common open-mindness to Plato, and to the idea that Aristotle's theory does not work. But for Badiou, it is an idea, when I argue we have no choice if we assume that our bodies are (relative) digital machines. What is Badiou's opinion on machines and Descartes? -- Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
