Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

The poverty of names and the sense of poetry

Thought-provoking account of a seminar in the USA with Alain Badiou, a professor whose writings 'harness the contemplative strengths of philosophy to love, art, and radical politics'. Amidst some intriguing ideas are striking observations that:

'...names in politics are impoverished. ... The weakness of politics today is a weakness of poetry."

The fall of communism, he continued, also influenced that impoverishment. "Marxism," he said, "had a constellation of names" for political concepts. "It was a sky of names. We lost the sky."'

and

'"There is always, in every truth procedure, a poetic moment," he said. 'The finding of a new name. ... We cannot even know a truth event without a sense of poetry."'

A sense of poetry that escapes both thought and daily life in this era: presumably being (at least partially) supplanted by terror of the unknown and fear of diversity.

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