{"id":12848,"date":"2014-05-18T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2014-05-18T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:59:45","slug":"toscano-on-badiou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/05\/18\/toscano-on-badiou\/","title":{"rendered":"toscano on Badiou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marxism Expatriated \u2013 Alberto Toscano on Alain Badiou<\/a><\/p>\n

the echoes of a common \u201cpost-structuralist\u201d theoretical conjuncture, and a critique of (or separation from) \u201cthick\u201d Hegelian-Marxist versions of dialectics and social ontology, might make one suspect that \u201cthe theoretical edifices of Laclau and Badiou are united by a deep homology\u201d.4 This \u201cdeep homology\u201d, which Zizek identifies in the notion of a contingent, subjective rupture of ontological closure, is nevertheless offset, still according to Zizek, by a fundamental divergence, inasmuch as, in the last instance, Badiou\u2019s \u201cpost-Marxism\u201d has nothing whatsoever to do with the fashionable deconstructionist dismissal of the alleged Marxist \u201cessentialism\u201d; on the contrary, he is unique in radically rejecting the deconstructionist doxa as a new form of pseudo-thought, as a contemporary version of sophism\u201d.5 Rather than either homology, or frontal opposition, it might be more precise to argue that Badiou\u2019s post-Maoism and the post-Marxism of Laclau et al. intersect in manners that generate, from the peculiar perspective of contemporary radical thought, a kind of \u201cfamily resemblance\u201d effect, but that, when push comes to shove, they are really indifferent to one another, born of divergent assessments of the end or crisis of Marxism. To a certain extent, they connect the same dots but the resulting pictures differ radically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marxism Expatriated \u2013 Alberto Toscano on Alain Badiou the echoes of a common \u201cpost-structuralist\u201d theoretical conjuncture, and a critique of (or separation from) \u201cthick\u201d Hegelian-Marxist versions of dialectics and social ontology, might make one suspect that \u201cthe theoretical edifices of Laclau and Badiou are united by a deep homology\u201d.4 This \u201cdeep homology\u201d, which Zizek identifies … Continue reading “toscano on Badiou”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}