In what Alain Badiou calls his “hyper-translation” of Plato’s Republic, we are taken into the world of Plato’s classic dialogue on politics and justice, sped up to the pace of a 21st century New York street corner. Socrates and his sophist interlocutors speak a gritty street talk that is both accessible and familiar, despite the fact they invoke intellectual figures from St. Paul to Jacques Lacan to the mathematician Paul Cohen.

Amanda, a female character who didn’t exist in Plato’s original is introduced. In some ways, Amantha plays the hysteric to Socrates,

Jesus wept

stegosaurus posted:

cant shut up about the same three or four people, the john dolan of french philosophy

yepppppp

the affirmationist essay is even worse by giving a grab bag of like twenty artists

littlegreenpills posted:

death on credit is practically the same book as death on the installment plan. for crying out loud celine shake it up a little, christ

wouldn't those actually be the exact same book?

88888 posted:

i just finished primitive rebels by hobsbawm. it was cool

hmm, I'm reading that too

animedad posted:

http://puigdestroyer.bandcamp.com/

now do matt kemp LOL

babyfinland posted:

chakrabarty

lol