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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands
our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our
judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood
in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of
artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes
disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated
marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of
contemporary capitalism. Yet these 'ordinary' scandals can
themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether
more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is
the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation.
Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not
only argues the case for such 'real scandal', but also shows how it
is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing
production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From
Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in
which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media
have come to actively contribute to this 'static' fabrication of
controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink
creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an
anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts
such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher
Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to
produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an
original book about an original thinker which applies - for the
first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts. The six
central concepts of this philosophy - 'being and appearing', 'event
and subject' and 'truth and ethics' - are elucidated through
detailed analysis of a range of visual artworks, including Marcel
Duchamp's readymades, the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich
and Mark Rothko, Banksy's contemporary street art, the sculpture of
Alberto Giacometti, Stephane Mallarme's visual poetry and Victor
Fleming's classic film The Wizard of Oz. In focusing on Badiou's
critical relationship with the visual arts, Alex Ling reinterprets
and represents not only the man, but art itself.
We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands
our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our
judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood
in ‘revelatory’ terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of
artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes
disturbing, ‘truth’. Otherswill be recognized as calculated
marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of
contemporary capitalism. Yet these ‘ordinary’ scandals can
themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether
more fundamental—and fundamentally rare—form of disruption.
Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic
creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous
Times not only argues the case for such ‘real scandal’, but
also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through
the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned
controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times
explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to
politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this
‘static’ fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for
the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state,
and not its proxy.
In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly
works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory,
demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation
and distinction from Set Theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In
doing so he sets out the basic onto-logical requirements of his
greater and transcendental logics as articulated in his magnum
opus, Logics of Worlds. This important book combines both his
elaboration of the disjunctive synthesis between ontology and
onto-logy (the discourses of being as such and being-appearing)
from the perspective of Category Theory and the categorial basis of
his philosophical conception of 'being there'.Hitherto unpublished
in either French or English, Mathematics of the Transcendental
provides Badiou's readers with a much-needed complete elaboration
of his understanding and use of Category Theory. The book is an
essential aid to understanding the mathematical and logical basis
of his theory of appearing as elaborated in Logics of Worlds and
other works and is essential reading for his many followers.
Applies Badiou's philosophy to films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour,
Vertigo and The Matrix. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain
Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film
scholarship - namely, 'can cinema be thought?' In addressing this
question, the author uses well-known films to illustrate Badiou's
philosophy and to consider the ways in which his work can be
extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of
cinema.
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