Volume One (2012)

The inaugural issue of the JBS revolves around the idea of ‘Badiou Now!’ Why? Because Badiou’s philosophical interest is fundamentally contemporary and political. The notion of Badiou Now! captures the urgency that Badiou sees in combating the ‘Thermidorian’ spirit, reactive and obscurantist subjects that deny the necessity of rupture, events, acts, new truths, who replace action with political apathy, and radical democracy with a return to ‘pure’ transcendental notions. In contrast to the Evental-negating/-denying subject, Badiou is concerned with the question of how to maintain fidelity to the event, while remaining aware of competing subjective forces and of the materialist dialectical need for endless events, for perpetual breaks and splits, which promote the present as future. The first issue, then, addresses the role of Badiou’s thought in building a twenty-first century conception of human organization.

Contents

Simon Critchley – Why Badiou is a Rousseauist

Jacob Bellone – Indetermined. Slight Infinitude and Genetic Opening

Roque Farran – La ontología filosófica implícita en el pensamiento…

Nicolò Fazioni – Real and Political, Badiou as a reader of Lacan

Stéphan Vinolo – “Ces fantômes qui donc nous gouvernent”

Daryl Campbell – The Open-source Revolution as a Badiouian Event

Lior Libman – Shadows over the Land Without Shade…

Leandro Garci Ponzo – El Ejercicio de la Permanencia