Philosophy, Between Poetry and Mathematics

Date: October 26, 2017 “This time I no longer have an idea of what I could do. After a philosophy of the absolute, nothing else comes other than the sinister. Hell, perhaps." — Alain Badiou, Closing Seminar, Théâtre de la Commune, Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, January 2017 Alain Badiou, one of the foremost philosophers of our time, and author of the forthcoming The Immanence of Truths, (on the absolute), will discuss the situation of philosophy now. This book is the third in a trilogy that includes Being and Event (1988) (on the universal) and Logics of Worlds (2006) (on the particular). Alexander Galloway, NYU Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, will respond. He is currently at work on a book on the “Digital and the Analog,” in which Badiou’s notion of philosophy and mathematics is central. Alain Badiou French Philosopher Former Chair of Philosophy, École normale supérieure (ENS) Founder, Faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII Alexander Galloway Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU