April 2013
Simon Critchley: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Following Jamieson Webster and Evan Malater's series of two seminars on Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley will speak about his 2007 book “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, in particular the ethical stakes of commitment to an infinite demand which can be linked to the conditions under which an oppositional egalitarian politics might take shape. Critchley writes: "It is at this intensely situational, indeed local level that the atomising, expropriating force of neo-liberal globalisation is to be met, contested…
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UnBadiou: A Seminar on Alain Badiou with Jamieson Webster and Evan Malater – Part II – Fidelity to the Event
"To be faithful to an event is to move within the situation that this event has supplemented, by thinking (although all thought is a practice, a putting to the test) the situation ‘according to’ the event. And this, of course – since the event was excluded by all the regular laws of the situation – compels the subject to invent a new way of being and acting in the situation.” Badiou, Ethics, p. 41 "Essentially, a truth is the material…
Find out more »UnBadiou: A Seminar on Alain Badiou with Jamieson Webster and Evan Malater – Part I – The Event and Unbehagen
"To be faithful to an event is to move within the situation that this event has supplemented, by thinking (although all thought is a practice, a putting to the test) the situation ‘according to’ the event. And this, of course – since the event was excluded by all the regular laws of the situation – compels the subject to invent a new way of being and acting in the situation.” Badiou, Ethics, p. 41 “Essentially, a truth is the material…
Find out more »Karen Proner: KLEINIAN DEVELOPMENTS
Karen Proner is an adult and child analyst who was trained in England,. She is presently living in New York and is a member of the NYFS and a faculty member of IPTAR. She is a training supervisor for the Child Analysis Training at the Freudian Society, and the Child Psychotherapy Training at IPTAR. She is a faculty member at the Centro Studi Martha Harris in Florence, Italy. She has been an editor of the International Journal of Infant Observation…
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