Update: The Stellar Matheme

A subset (or is it a power set?) of The Parallel Campaign is currently running a reading group on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, focusing particularly on Peter Hallward's Badiou: Subject to Truth, and the recently translated collection of essays, Theoretical Writings. A more detailed listing of the areas covered will be posted, as will hopefully a recording of some of the remarks and insights gathered therein.

Here is a copy of the reading list:

Wk 1-2
Reading Ch.3 & 4, ‘Infinite by Prescription,’ & ‘Badiou’s Ontology’
Hallward, P., Badiou: A Subject to Truth.

Wk 3
Reading “The Event & the Instance of Chance” in Ch.5, ‘Subject & Event’
Hallward, P., Badiou: A Subject to Truth.

Week break

Wk 4
Reading Ch.5, “On the Edge of the Void”
Hallward, P., Badiou: A Subject to Truth.

Wk. 5
Reading Ch.5, The Generic Set/Forcing
Hallward, P., Badiou: A Subject to Truth.

Wk 6
Reading Ch.5, “Towards a Topological Understanding of Subjective Space”
& “The Generic Procedures”
Hallward, P., Badiou: A Subject to Truth.

“Postface”
Badiou, A, Theoretical Writings