Latest Posts | By Andrey Gordienko
1 year ago
Pandemic Emergency and Philosophy’s Right to Truth
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Debates
Events and Emergencies
In a recent text, Alain Badiou defines philosophy as “a meditation regarding the existence of truths that result from the event in a given situation of being.”[i] …
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2 years ago
The Epistemic State of Exception
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Debates
Agamben’s “Configuration of Facts” and Foucault’s “Regime of Truth”
In “The Central Bankers’ Long COVID,” Fabio Vighi observes that the contemporary paradigm of government by crisis fosters a rhetoric of …
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2 years ago
Badiou and the Erasure of Political Frontiers
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Debates
Comprising two lectures delivered in November of 2016, Alain Badiou’s short book on Trump arrived in 2019, at the outset of the last election season. It is thus tempting to …
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