From: "fuller" <fuller-AT-bekkers.com.au>
Subject: Re: some notes on Badiou
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:47:46 +0800


Eric/All

> 2.  The reason why the event is pre-existent Badiou's mathematic
> arguments rely on the cantor set ( or set between all sets) to make the
> proposition, 'alterity is what there is'. Instead of 'difference without
> a concept' we have a mathematical determination of the concept and thus
> difference in itself becomes frozen in a mathematical mode of
> production, a technical determination. This  closes down the potentials
> of intuition as method as a turn and return beyond the experientially
> given and  ( hypothetically) leaves no room for the creation of novelty.

I don't follow Ruth's argument here, could anyone (Eric?) clarify... I saw
the event as a process... eh?

Glen.