Truth and
Consequences: From Roger Cohen
to Alain Badiou
to Wallace Stevens
Consequences: From Roger Cohen
to Alain Badiou
to Wallace Stevens
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“That summer of ’68, I was in a vast crowd in London’s sunlit Hyde Park listening to Pink Floyd’s free concert: One inch of love is one inch of shadow Right on! Anything seemed possible….” — Roger Cohen, May 28, 2008, on 1968, “Much of Badiou’s life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris.” |
“The Event of Truth,”
European Graduate School video:
Quoted by Badiou at
European Graduate School,
August 2002:
| We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, Not in a single world, In things said well in music, On the piano and in speech, As in a page of poetry— Thinkers without final thoughts In an always incipient cosmos. The way, when we climb a mountain, Vermont throws itself together. — Wallace Stevens, Or Pennsylvania:
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