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Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Badiou's Ethics
Dec 11, 2023
Discussion on rules of eating, biased thinking, violence of information, murder, the queen, and a vanishing boy. Badiou's ethics and its connection to Lacanian notions of desire. Badiou's evolution in politics and relationship with Spinoza and Lacan. Deviance, ethics, and truth procedures. Fidelity to truth and the challenges of maintaining it. Exploring book endings, societal inequality, and transformation of politics. Exploring trauma, cooperation, healers, and confrontation in 'God Emperor'. Delving into martyrdom sacrifice, confrontation, and adversaries.
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- Badiou argues for an ethics of truth that starts with the good and fidelity to an event, as opposed to focusing on evil and negative prescriptions of everyday discourse.
- Evil can arise from the fullness of a situation, leading to hierarchies, exclusions, and terror, while betrayal involves adhering to a false event and bringing disastrous consequences.
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Starting with the Good and the Evil of Terror and Betrayal
Badu argues for an ethics of truth that begins with the good, rather than starting from evil. He sees the ethics of everyday discourse as negative prescriptions that focus on what not to do. In contrast, the ethics of truth are based on fidelity to a truth procedure, drawing out the consequences of an event. Evil can arise from the fullness of a situation, where a chosen group is hierarchized above all others, leading to terror and exclusion. Betrayal is another form of evil, where fidelity is given to an obscure subject that lacks truth and brings disastrous consequences.
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