Pocket Pantheon by Alain Badiou

Author:Alain Badiou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

Which tells us that it is in not ‘being up to it’ that the intractable originates.

1964: the great split in the group, with Cornelius Castoriadis on one side, and the ‘Pouvoir ouvrier’ group, which Lyotard joined, albeit with growing doubts, on the other.

And in 1966, the resignation from ‘Pouvoir ouvrier’. And the split with friend and founder Pierre Souyri.

And in 1968, the self-evident truth, for Lyotard, that the proletariat is at best a ponderous arrière-garde, that the supposed-subject is amorphous, that history is erratic. The text ‘Désirévolution’ says it in poetic terms:

But that was the very essence of history the void into which we threw our stones the absence of a referential the groping night Violence of the absent meaning a question dug up from the cobblestones and hurled beyond all institutions. Negativity is a challenge to that which represses or represents it. Thanks to its gesture the pious discourse of the political paradise, be it today or tomorrow, collapses into vanity. They did not see that. That what is beginning is not a crisis leading to another regime or system thanks to a necessary process. That the desired other cannot be capitalism’s other because the essence of capitalism is that its other is inside it and can therefore be recuperated That the other who was openly desired is and will be desired is the other of the prehistory in which we are in irons a scream demeaned to the status of the written gin-palace images consoling music invention banned or patented game broken in two work and leisure knowledge schized into science love into sex And society’s open eye in its midst the Greek eye their politics is busy filling it with sand What has been announced is the beginning of history the opening of the eye They refuse to see.13

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