Is Badiou Behind the Wu Tang Clan?

Is The RZA’s mathematical concept of truth the imported from Badiou? “The Truth shall set you free from all things.” (Props to Rodrigo Morales for the heads up)

Badiou on not understanding Laruelle.

Ben Woodard, student at the EGS and specualtive realist partisan, has scored an interview with Alain Badiou. I’m glad Badiou is feeling better as he was unable to attend the Film-Philosophy conference at Dundee and I’m also pleased to hear that he is is apparently not currently on a mountain in the middle of France as he, allegedly, always is, or at least that’s what the email explaining he had a very violent bladder infection said. Anyway, comedy aside, it is interesting in that it gets one of the great living philosophers to comment on a new, popular philosophical trend. Ben, after Badiou says something about the Real in relation to Meillassoux, asks Badiou about his thoughts on Laruelle.

New JCRT

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory has posted a new issue, including an article of mine entitled “Politics and Perversion: Situating Zizek’s Paul” [pdf].

The article is an expanded and clarified version of an SBL presentation I gave in 2006, which I revised thoroughly just before starting work on Zizek and Theology around this time last year. It is in fundamental agreement with my conclusions in the book — in fact, I was tempted to cannibalize the essay for my chapter on Zizek’s works on Christianity, but ultimately did not — but comes at things from a different direction, most notably in its extended treatment of Badiou’s reading of Paul.

Other highlights of the issue include a review of Clayton Crockett’s Interstices of the Sublime, together with Crockett’s response.