Matter and Form, Self-Evidence and Surprise

On Jean-Luc Moulène's Objects

Alain Badiou, Miguel Abreu, Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)

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Sequence Press
06 August 2019

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"The eminent French philosopher ""dialecticizes"" five of the artist Jean-Luc Moul ne's objects with five conceptual formations from the history of Western philosophy.

In this unique essay, first delivered as a lecture during a panel discussion with the artist and philosopher Reza Negarestani, Alain Badiou identifies and ""dialecticizes"" five of the artist Jean-Luc Moul ne's objects with five conceptual formations from the history of Western philosophy. Aristotle's complex of matter and form is called to mind to describe the inner logic of a hard foam sculpture. A bronze statue with holes activates Plato's notion of participation of the concrete world in the ""injured Idea of the Beautiful."" A small metallic and incomplete ""angel"" engages Leibniz's affirmation that ""everything that exists is composed of an infinity of things."" Badiou's musings go on to pair a broken and repaired plastic chair with Victor Hugo; a terrible hand made of concrete with the Freudian unconscious; and a large-scale ""red and blue monster"" with rudimentary mechanisms of the Cartesian cogito, the famous ""I think, therefore I am,"" with unexpected inversions and variations. Badiou refrains, of course, from claiming that Moul ne thinks about any of these philosophers when making his specific works. What he points to, however, in this richly illustrated bilingual volume, is that the artist and his art are ""on the side of philosophy."""

By: Alain Badiou
Foreword by: Miguel Abreu
Translated by: Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)
Imprint: Sequence Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 338g
ISBN: 9780997567496
ISBN 10: 099756749X
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 06 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. He has published a number of major philosophical works, including The Immanence of Truths, the final installment of his Being and Event trilogy, released in French in 2018. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

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Matter and Form, Self-Evidence and Surprise

On Jean-Luc Moulène's Objects

Alain Badiou, Miguel Abreu, Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)

$39.99

Hardback

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