Posts tagged: philosophy

Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault — Philosophy and Psychology (1965)

Watch a televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault on philosophy and psychology.
Alain Badiou: “The alleged power of capitalism today is merely a reflection of the weakness of its opponent.”

Darko Vujica speaks with Alain Badiou about the past and future of communism.
Alain Badiou: "I hold firm to the communist hypothesis"...Laurent Joffrin: "Which no one wants anymore."

Alain Badiou debates Laurent Joffrin, a reformist (and editor of Libération newspaper), who defends existing social democracy.
Audio: Peter Osborne, Andrew Benjamin, Catherine Malabou, and Howard Caygill on Hegel's Logic

Four thinkers outline and debate different aspects of the contemporary importance of Hegel’s dialectical logic.
Democracy, Oppression, and Universality: an Interview with Étienne Balibar

Balibar discusses nationalism, universalism, Europe, resistance, and the influence of Althusser.
Five Book Plan: Objects and Atmospheres

Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas, selects five essential books that theorize objects and atmospheres.
Alain Badiou on the Russian Revolution of October 1917

"The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an unprecedented event in the history of the human species."
Audio: Capitalism: Concept and Idea. 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: The Philosophy and Politics of Capital Today.

Recordings of presentations by by Antonio Negri, Cinzia Arruzza, Jason W. Moore, Peter Osborne, Tithi Bhattacharya, Gayatri Spivak, and others.
Video: Jacques Rancière, Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac — Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity

Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.
Western Fanaticism and The Idea of China

"China" continues to be a kind of allegorical screen for thinking political fanaticism.
Political Power and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Societies

Marx’s original definition concerned political power as the direct manifestation of class antagonism, coupled with its opposite: the abolition of political power properly so-called in a fully realized socialist society. But what happens in between? Is it possible to break entrenched political power without necessarily resorting to the exercise of a fully articulated system of political power?
Humankind by philosopher Timothy Morton is 40% off

It is in our relationship with non-humans that we decided the fate of our humanity. Becoming human means creating a network of kindness and solidarity with non-human beings, in the name of a broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes the notion of species.