[D66] Simulacres

[J.N.]

Niet alleen waarheden maar ook simulacres...


http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/badious-gauntlet

Badiou's Gauntlet
July 6, 2016	

Badiou's Gauntlet, the challenge that Badiou issues to any kind of
philosophy, is that the categories are three. No more than three, but
also no less than three. Badiou's Gauntlet is that there are bodies and
languages, but also truths.

The challenge permeates all of Badiou's work. One particularly clear
expression of it comes at the start of Logics of Worlds, where Badiou
differentiates cleanly between the two-category thinkers and the
three-category thinkers. The two-category thinkers claim that there are
only bodies and languages, only two basic categories of existence. These
“bodies and languages” may appear under any number of alternate names.
Some philosophers talk about objects and relations, others about
extension and thought. Some contemplate matter and mind, others wrestle
with things and information. The names are not as important as the
commitment they entail, that there are only two basic things in the
world, only real entities and the languages through which they interrelate.