\u201cThere is no sexual relationship\u201d does not mean that there is a multiplicity of unbound or unrelated sexual positions, i.e., that there is no common measure between the masculine and the feminine positions; sexual difference is rather \u201cimpossible\u201d because it is, in a sense, prior to both positions: masculine and feminine are the two ways to symbolize the deadlock of sexual difference. \u017d LTN<\/p>\n
How, then, does the Badiouian Event stand with regard to formulae of sexuation?<\/span><\/p>\n Some Lacanian feminist critics claim that the exceptional status of the Event with regard to ordinary \u201chuman-animal\u201d life, its status as the exception to universality, compels us to locate it on the male side of the formulae\u2015and, indeed, is not this logic of exception to universality confirmed by Badiou\u2019s own formulations, such as when he says: \u201cThere is nothing but bodies and languages …<\/em>,\u201d to which materialist dialectics adds \u201c…with the exception of truths<\/em>\u201d (Alain Badiou, Logiques des mondes<\/em>, Paris: Seuil 2006, p. 9)?<\/p>\n Furthermore, does not the heroic-phallic connotation of the fidelity to an Event (the idea of \u201cenforcing\u201d the truth) also bear witness to its masculine nature?<\/p>\n There is nonetheless a key feature which renders such a reading problematic, convincing as it may appear: on the male side of Lacan\u2019s formulae of sexuation, the exception is the exception to universality<\/span> (all but x are …) which, as such, grounds this universality<\/span>, while in the case of the Badiouian Truth-Event, the evental Truth is<\/em> universal<\/strong>; i.e., here, exception does not ground universality (with regard to which it is an exception), the exception (an evental Truth) is<\/em> universality.<\/p>\n Or, to put it in another way, universality is here singular<\/span>, it is what Hegel called a universality \u201cfor itself,\u201d a universality<\/span> posited as such in a singular point. Or, to put yet another way,<\/p>\n universality<\/strong> is here not the outcome of a neutral view to which we gain access after elevating ourselves above particular or partial engaged positions; universality is, on the contrary, something which is accessible only to an engaged subjective position. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The supreme case here is the Marxian proletariat which stands for the exception, the \u201cpart of no-part,\u201d of the social body, and is precisely as such the “universal class.”<\/span>\u00a0 \u017d LTN 812<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThere is no sexual relationship\u201d does not mean that there is a multiplicity of unbound or unrelated sexual positions, i.e., that there is no common measure between the masculine and the feminine positions; sexual difference is rather \u201cimpossible\u201d because it is, in a sense, prior to both positions: masculine and feminine are the two ways … Continue reading “sexual difference from LTN”<\/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":[94,103,20],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-difference","category-universal","category-zizek","tag-ltn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}