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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Alain Badiou"”.
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This infinite, unanimous dissonance : a study in mathematical existentialism through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou
… common to the work both of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou (with special attention being given to Being and Nothingness and Being and Event respectively): the thesis that the subject 's existence precedes and determines its essence. To this end, the author aims to explicate the structural …
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Ethics and The Other: An Interpretation of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
… quietist, made by thinkers like Gillian Rose and Alain Badiou. This understanding of Levinas is founded on a misreading of his texts, and as such I present a new reading of Levinas work which provides a basis for political thinking. In doing so, I explore the role of the Other in Levinas’ …
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Philip K. Dick and the Spectre of the Subject
… by the work of the contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou. Drawing from three different phases of Dick’s career, I aim to demonstrate that his The Man in the High Castle (1962), Time Out of Joint (1959) and the later short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” can examine and comment …
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Σύλληψη, ανάλυση και παραγωγή πρωτότυπης παράστασης: Another dance at the bus stop
… αντλεί από στοχαστές όπως ο Michel Foucault, ο Alain Badiou, οι Gilles Deleuze και Félix Guattari, το Judith Butler, η Pina Bausch και ο Hans – Thies Lehmann, προκειμένου να αναλυθούν ζητήματα εξουσίας, φύλου, επανάληψης, σκηνογραφικής σύνθεσης και δραματικής χρονικότητας. Παράλληλα, …
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self: Living in the Truth
… frameworks developed by Paul Ricoeur and Alain Badiou. Seeking “nothing short of a full victory” on the “battlefield” of history, Badiou argues that Ricoeur deceives his readers by hiding the relationship of the self to history. The purpose of this deception is to defend a definition of …
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Processes of Social Change in the Works of Badiou and Laclau
… theories of social change found in the works of Alain Badiou and Ernesto Laclau succeed in fulfilling this task. Badiou contends that a political process transforms the situation in which it unfolds in so far as what it produces is a ‘truth’. Certain implications of the set-theoretical …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… discussion about racism in poetry and music. Alain Badiou, David Trippett and Alex Ross have lately renewed interest in historical Wagnerism. But much anglophone writing about Wagner has been dismissed simply because it is poorly understood. This dissertation’s first chapter is about early …
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The Impasse of Liberal (In)Equality: Materialising Egalitarian Politics Through Collective Fidelity
… heteronomous conducts, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou provide a way out of the impasse of liberal (in)equality. They do so by reconceptualising equality as a starting point rather than an objective of politics. Framed as such, egalitarian politics becomes a fully emancipatory project …
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Embracing the Wound of Contingency: Transcribing Reality in Supernatural Horror and Found Footage
… literature. Framing the contingent rupture along Alain Badiou’s theory of the event, this paper argues Supernatural Horror media presents the possibility of an inhuman ethical attitude in the face of the contingent – an embrace of the insatiable wound of inductive skepticism (as outlined by David …
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The Afterlife of Painting
… of art, particularly the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze (with Felix Guattari). Chapter three uses Peter Osborne’s six-point definition of the conditions of postconceptual art to argue for a form of post-conceptual painting. I contend that Osborne gives insufficient weight …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
… on the concept of the model as understood by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. The theoretical aim is to establish a multi-viewpoint theoretical approach based on the dynamic concept of the ‘Walker’ or ‘Flâneur’ replacing single viewpoint categorization, a concept also to be applied to the …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, as their thought develops through their participation in a collaborative, periodical publication, and introduce lesser known thinkers who have not received an extended readership in Anglophone spheres. Lignes also argues for the …
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EMANCIPATING DESIRE, EMPOWERING FANTASY: CULTURAL POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA
… method and drawing on Jacques Ranciere?s and Alain Badiou?s theories on the potentiality of cinema for progressive social change, I examine new film practices, genres, networks, industry structures and social struggles in Indonesia and Malaysia today which are aided by the advancement in new …
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Perdón por (no) querer decir: Derrida: responsabilidad, secreto y literatura
… de un seminario sobre filosofía y literatura, Alain Badiou ha planteado que no se trata de una relación única, sino de diversos modos de vincularse. Él ha propuesto, por lo menos, tres orientaciones posibles frente a esta relación. La primera de ellas la nombra orientación estética, donde la …
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The Emergence of the Documentary Real within Relational and Post-Relational Political Aesthetics
… is why the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou respectively, are inadequate to the demands of current aesthetics. In fact they hinder its development. On this basis I turn to Rodolphe Gashé’s re-thinking of relation. His thinking grants relation a minimal ontology that in fact …
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Portfolio of compositions with commentaries 2012-2015
This writing forms part of a portfolio of works which gathers together notations and recordings made between 2012 and 2015. The writing divides into four chapters. The first chapter undertakes an examination of abstraction. From the proposition obtained therein, that it is possible to extend within …
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TOWARDS A POINTAL ECCLESIOLOGY: ZIZEK AND BADIOU IN THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION
This thesis presents a survey of Alain Badiou’s ontology and theory of the “event,” including his understanding of “faithful subject,” followed by an examination of Slavoj Zizek’s materialist theology, undertaken with a view to what they can say to inform the modem Western Church. Though the thrust …