Badiou

Lenin dancing on the snow: periodisation against history

Sektor: Historični materializem
. Za znanost zgodovine ta ne pomeni le preteklosti, temveč tudi in predvsem sedanjost – sedanjost, ki jo razumemo kot množico procesov in bojev v danem (preteklem ali sedanjem) trenutku. Historični materializem tako prinaša dokumente, poročila, analize in druge tekste, ki na različne načine pišejo materialistično zgodovino.

Aiming to salvage the subversive and emancipatory nucleus of the dialectic, Alain Badiou’s theory of the subject has consistently worked against a vision of History as full, legible meaning for the sake of an internal, subjective and discontinuous grasp of the periodisation of political ‘sequences’. In this talk, I will examine the theoretical movement that leads Badiou to dislocate the dialectics of history and historicity of the dialectic, generating a comprehension of political time that is no longer bound to an ordered matrix of expression and development.