{"id":1375,"date":"2011-04-12T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:58:34","slug":"the-idea-of-communism-badiou-lacan-althusser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscutrone.platypus1917.org\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"The idea of communism: Badiou, Lacan, Althusser (audio recording)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chris Cutrone<\/h2>\n<p>Alain Badiou\u2019s recent book (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Zizek\u2019s work for the last few years, \u201cthe communist hypothesis.\u201d Zizek has spoken of \u201cthe Badiou event\u201d as opening new horizons for both philosophy and communism. Badiou and Zizek share a background in Lacanian and Althusserian \u201cpost-structuralist\u201d French thought, in common with other prominent post-New Left thinkers \u2014 and former students of Louis Althusser \u2014 such as Etienne Balibar and Jacques Ranci\u00e8re. Althusser found, in the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, a salutary challenge to the notion of the Hegelian \u201clogic of history,\u201d that revolutionary change could and indeed did happen as a matter of contingency. For Badiou, this means that emancipation must be conceived of as an \u201cevent,\u201d which involves a fundamental reconsideration of ontology.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"26\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param value=\"true\" name=\"cachebusting\"\/><param value=\"#000000\" name=\"bgcolor\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" \/><param value=\"config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'TheIdeaOfCommunism041211.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/ChrisCutroneLectureOntheIdeaOfCommunismBadiouLacanAlthusser\/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+ChrisCutroneLectureOntheIdeaOfCommunismBadiouLacanAlthusser+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}\" name=\"flashvars\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"440\" height=\"26\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" cachebusting=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'TheIdeaOfCommunism041211.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/ChrisCutroneLectureOntheIdeaOfCommunismBadiouLacanAlthusser\/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{'Listen+to+ChrisCutroneLectureOntheIdeaOfCommunismBadiouLacanAlthusser+at+archive.org':null},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ChrisCutroneLectureOntheIdeaOfCommunismBadiouLacanAlthusser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio recording<\/a> of presentation and discussion hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 12, 2011<\/div>\n<p>Suggested background readings:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cutrone, <a href=\"http:\/\/platypus1917.org\/2010\/11\/06\/the-marxist-hypothesis-a-response-to-alain-badous-communist-hypothesis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Marxist Hypothesis: A Response to Badiou&#8217;s &#8216;Communist Hypothesis&#8217;\u201d<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Badiou, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org\/?view=2705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Communist Hypothesis\u201d<\/a> (2008)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cutrone, <a href=\"http:\/\/platypus1917.org\/2010\/08\/05\/chinoiserie-a-critique-of-the-revolutionary-communist-party-usa%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cnew-synthesis%e2%80%9d\/\">\u201cChinoiserie: A Critique of the RCP, USA on Badiou\u201d<\/a> (2010)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Badiou, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacan.com\/thesymptom\/?page_id=1031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTunisia, Egypt: The Universal Reach of Popular Uprisings\u201d<\/a> (2011)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wal Suchting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generation-online.org\/p\/suchting_althusser.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Althusser&#8217;s Late Thinking about Materialism&#8221;<\/a> (2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cutrone Alain Badiou\u2019s recent book (2010) is titled with the phrase promoted by his and Slavoj Zizek\u2019s work for the last few years, \u201cthe communist hypothesis.\u201d Zizek has spoken of \u201cthe Badiou event\u201d as opening new horizons for both philosophy and communism. 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