What in the hell …

It’s the title of a book by Jacques Ranciere. (more…)

In an earlier post on Althusser I suggested that attention to (producing) the encounters within organizing be taken as a response to Althusser’s aleatory materialism. I still hold to that. On the other hand, there are other responses. (more…)

This is a talk I gave recently. Thanks to all the folk who gave comments on earlier drafts. (more…)

Some notes on some books, two of which have been recalled by some accursed other library user before I’ve read much of them. Curse you, other library user! (more…)

I recently finished the new Althusser collection, the Philosophy of the Encounter, where Althusser sketches what he calls “aleatory materialism” or “materialism of the encounter.” (more…)

New piece out by the Free Association. I had a small hand in it, wish it’d been a bigger hand. I like those folks very, very much.

I’ve been reading Badiou lately. I shall soon-ish be formulating more questions on that. For now, more notes on the later Althusser, which is quite resonant with Badiou. I can’t recall the relationship between the two. I seem to remember Badiou being a student of or a younger professor influenced by Althusser. In any case … (more…)

For starters, read their manifesto. (According to a note, in addition to Miguel Benasayag both Balibar and Badiou were members of the group, which I didn’t know. Must get more info on that.)