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A passage from Badiou's <i>Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism</i> HIGHLY relevant to a number of recent threads here: 'What is the real unifying factor behind [the] attempt to promote the cultural virtue of oppressed subsets, this invocation of language in order to extol communitarian...

Your point of view is always located somewhere, but intellectual positions aren't the same as POVs. In what sense are mathematics and geometry 'located somewhere'? Precisely. They have to be impersonal about their own bodies. See them as if from outside. Well, genuine collectivity, which is...

Or as The Fall had it... Hate's not your enemy, love's your enemy murder all bush monkeys....

But we're not at a party are we? There's plenty of places where you can go to THEM.. in fact the whole of British culture is one long tedious hedonathon.... with no rules, where the only obligatory thing is FUN FUN FUN The analogy of the party is as telling as the school bully anecdote...

Yes, law's role in establishing property is definitely something that I'd forgotten about. I utterly recant. As for rights, I assume you mean individual rights, which as a communist I of course don't believe in. There are collective rights or none at all. Yes, of course. Do you really believe...

Where do I get off the bus with this one? I expect this kind of argument from clueless twentysomethings who have no concept of the structural or the systemic, but really.... I'll let another authority speak for me: [1163] But when intemperance and diseases multiply in a State, halls of...

No he didn't. He missed the point of it, and his subjectivist huffs and puffs and further ad hominen nonsense rather confirmed my analysis. But I suppose if you're not into rationality, anything goes. Lawyers are _structurally_ evil. The fact that some lawyers are good is not because they...

The implicit - or not so implicit - racism of the Neocon crusader position can be summed up by an analogy. Imagine Britain in the reign of, ooh let's say, Queen Mary.... a vicious tyrant, burning opposition to her reign right left and centre. Would people support the idea of a foreign power...

Innocynicism Innocynicism -- that's the word I needed earlier.... Luke, I'm sure some lawyers are OK, but as ever your arguments are individualistic, inductive and subjectivized, whereas mine are structural. As a general point, and this goes for the RCChurch of Satan defenders too: any...

'Finishing the job' of course entails completing the task of turning Iraq into a stronghold of Islamofascism, because that is what they have achieved thus far. Zizek is right to say in The Borrowed Kettle that there is a kind of perverse cunning of reason governing US foreign policy such that...

The fruits of a brief but typically super-stimulating conversation with Infinite Thought and Alberto Toscano (a man badly in need of an alias). We all know that Blair is a liar, right? I'm not so sure. What is certain is that Bush is a <i>poor</i> liar. But I suspect that Bush's failure to be...

Thanks John, yeh i've read yr piece before... have all the relevant Vagues I think....

It's late -- but re: Cult Studs, total evil, middle mass vulturous in the aftermath (I was there in the Department of Cultural Studies at Birmingham, false discussion in this institution in room CH10, pure bourgeois horror, will substantiate this later...) As for 1) one doesn't really know...

'consistency is a formal requirement and just about everything is consistent with each other' Some things that are not consistent with one another: the proposition 'it is raining now' and the proposition 'it is not raining now' if made simultaneously oil and water ''you identify rationality...

Clarification: John --- since it could be read as a sarcastic put down, by 'boys we both know' I most definitely did not mean you btw... lol as for Foucault: point is, it's intensity PLUS politics, and the two are mutually reinforcing.... can't really have one without the other....

'Originally Posted by k-punk Saying that it rationality is masculine is straightforward, no-nonsense sexism. and this week's "deep unheard of insight" award goes to ................ the k-punk! kon-gratulations' and every day's 'smug one-upmanship pointless depoliticized rejoinder' award...

A number of times recently, both on the web and in meatworld, I have seen males - and it is always males - aver something to the effect that intellectual discussion or rationality are masculine. Rationality just means consistency: in the first instance, intellectual consistency, but more...

I'm doing something on Mark Stewart for the forthcoming Noise Theory Noise conference at Middlesex. I was just wondering if anyone out there has any interesting Stewart-related material they would be willing to share. I've obv been to the excellent Pop Group site, but any more unusual stuff...

Courtesy <a href=http://glueboot.blogspot.com>Glueboot</a>, this <a href=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/congress/2005/call.html>conference on virtuality</a> looks potentially interesting. The abstract is typical academic rust blather, but DeLanda and Katherine Hayles are very good value as...

I don't feel spiritual when I'm dancing, but then I never feel 'spiritual'. I don't know what this means beyond some vague feeling of hey man I feel connected with the cosmos, y'know... But, as Deleuze rightly says, all arguments from experience are bad and reactionary. This is the case...