Alain Badiou as Urban Philosopher

Jeff Rubard

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Apr 14, 2010, 8:26:22 PM4/14/10

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If you like it 'ruff '--
and 'tuff' ---
Living for the city is just enough:
WHY, then, Alain Badiou
The Frenchman *extraordinaire*
Is your man
As regards the Consumer Reports version
Of the Urban disorder.
With regards

J.C.
[Jimmy Corrigan --]

Jeff Rubard

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Apr 14, 2010, 8:48:42 PM4/14/10

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Alternate: Walter Benjamin -- Johnny Royale with the Stereopticon car
--
[Do you think that he went too far --- Ans: Yes!]
http://www.amazon.com/Technological-Reproducibility-Other-Writings-Media/dp/0674024451/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_4
Harvard/Verso [o'course]:

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 25, 2021, 6:56:48 AM12/25/21

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I'm not sure who Badiou is anymore

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 26, 2021, 10:52:12 AM12/26/21

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What kind of a name is that, anyway? "Badiou"?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 28, 2021, 2:05:37 AM12/28/21

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Said to live in the "banlieu" suburbs, anyway.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 28, 2021, 5:06:01 PM12/28/21

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...and I don't totally understand his antipathy to Wittgenstein.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 30, 2021, 8:20:34 PM12/30/21

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Or how, to him, Hegel somehow simply = Kant.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 31, 2021, 1:00:12 AM12/31/21

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Or is that right?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 31, 2021, 11:29:43 AM12/31/21

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(Maybe someone should ask him.)

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 31, 2021, 5:49:29 PM12/31/21

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Could they?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jan 1, 2022, 8:31:00 PM1/1/22

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Kind of a pathetically athero-sclerotic elitist left fuck, though, isn't he?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jan 2, 2022, 2:27:57 AM1/2/22

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Maybe "Quentin Meillassoux" is better.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jan 4, 2022, 2:45:09 AM1/4/22

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...or it's not all the same guy?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Mar 16, 2022, 7:21:55 PM3/16/22

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Hard to say, I guess.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Apr 4, 2022, 8:57:34 PM4/4/22

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You might even say, based on the textual evidence, that he is a *suburban* philosopher.
(Don't "sing along" here, gang.)

Jeffrey Rubard

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May 17, 2022, 5:41:51 PM5/17/22

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Oh, who knows.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jun 7, 2022, 4:30:34 PM6/7/22

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I suppose in a way *I* might even be Badiou in some sense.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jun 26, 2022, 6:06:13 PM6/26/22

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Update: What was I talking about, here?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jul 11, 2022, 9:08:15 PM7/11/22

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Does anybody know how to reach him?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jul 12, 2022, 5:00:58 PM7/12/22

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Could anybody get Badiou on the phone?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Sep 6, 2022, 5:27:51 PM9/6/22

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"Well, it's not like you're Badiou, right? You talk about 'beggaring belief' a lot but, I mean, really..."

Jeffrey Rubard

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Sep 17, 2022, 5:55:18 PM9/17/22

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"Whatever he was saying..."

Jeffrey Rubard

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Sep 19, 2022, 3:01:36 PM9/19/22

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"That's not you in the videos."
Sure. Have you seen any YouTube videos where it arguably *would* be this guy, though?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Oct 23, 2022, 7:34:35 PM10/23/22

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What do people who know Badiou say?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Nov 14, 2022, 3:17:14 PM11/14/22

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"I don't know. I mean, for all I know *you* are Badiou."
I don't look like the person in pictures of Badiou, though.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Nov 15, 2022, 7:55:18 PM11/15/22

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"Yeah, um, right."
What if the author photograph were a "facsimile" of my face, though?
"You mean like you sat in front of a digital SLR for the book cover?"
Yes.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Nov 16, 2022, 8:08:35 PM11/16/22

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"That's obviously not Badiou."
What if it were, say, Ted Sider or Philip Pettit?
"I like their work less."
Ah, a "Continental", I see.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Nov 17, 2022, 9:11:54 PM11/17/22

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"Well, let me go talk to them."
Do you ever "prevaricate" about things?
"What's that mean?"
The truth is *way behind* what you say, and discovered by coping in a difficult way with the untruth of what you say?
("Click" on the other end of the line, etc.)