{"id":9638,"date":"2012-10-26T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2012-10-26T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:24:05","slug":"otherless-ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/26\/otherless-ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"otherless ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston, Adrian. <em>Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change<\/em>. Northwestern University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Opposing himself to what he takes to be Badiou&#8217;s position in matters ontological, \u017d in his more Hegelian manner, proposes an <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;\">Otherless ontology<\/span> in which those dimensions Badiou seeks to capture at the level of non-being (i.e. , events as irruptions of radical newness) are to be found within the domain of being itself, a being whose internally conflicted fragility leaves it open to immanent breaks forming parts of its unstable processes of self-sundering.\u00a0 137-138<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek refuses to maintain a sharp distinction between being and non-being (recalling that Badiou does indeed recognize such a difference to the extent that he identifies the evental as what-is-not-being-qua-being or what is other-than-being.\u00a0 From the \u017di\u017eekian standpoint, the ordinary being of society is not to be opposed to the extraordinary event of politics \u2014 the very &#8220;substance&#8221; of the former (as an insubstantial inexistence) consists of (even if it usually works to conceal) the negativity at play in the antagonisms and clashes of the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston, Adrian. Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change. Northwestern University Press, 2009. Opposing himself to what he takes to be Badiou&#8217;s position in matters ontological, \u017d in his more Hegelian manner, proposes an Otherless ontology in which those dimensions Badiou seeks to capture at the level of non-being (i.e. , events as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/26\/otherless-ontology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;otherless ontology&#8221;<\/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":[45,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badiou","category-ontology","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638","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=9638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9638\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}