{"id":13566,"date":"2018-06-02T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T18:13:38","slug":"badiou-on-becketts-krapps-last-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2018\/06\/02\/badiou-on-becketts-krapps-last-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigi J\u00f6ttkandt on Badiou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture addresses an apparent shift in Alain Badiou&#8217;s thinking on sex and the universal. Previously Badiou had maintained that sex was a particularity that requires subtraction from the universal, together with the other predicative descriptions of identity such as nation, race and class. However in a recent paper, &#8220;Figures of Femininity in the Contemporary World&#8221;, Badiou contends that the sexuation of philosophical and symbolic thought is &#8220;inevitable&#8221;. Taking Badiou&#8217;s readings of Samuel Beckett as its guide, and addressing Badiou&#8217;s discussions of change in<em> Logics of Worlds <\/em>and <em>Subject of Chang<\/em>e, this lecture works through the implications of this new claim. It asks whether Badiou&#8217;s thought allows the possibility of a real change in his philosophy, including thereby the potential to change one&#8217;s sex.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhP5aMw5EIM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is a true change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture addresses an apparent shift in Alain Badiou&#8217;s thinking on sex and the universal. Previously Badiou had maintained that sex was a particularity that requires subtraction from the universal, together with the other predicative descriptions of identity such as nation, race and class. However in a recent paper, &#8220;Figures of Femininity in the Contemporary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2018\/06\/02\/badiou-on-becketts-krapps-last-tape\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sigi J\u00f6ttkandt on Badiou&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566","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=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13575,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions\/13575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}