[D-G] Politics of desire and the 21st century

[Glen Fuller]

Badiou's article:

http://www.islamonline.net/English/in_depth/hijab/2004-
03/article_04.shtml


some brief comments from around the blogosphere:

http://blog.urbanomic.com/dread/archives/2005/04/badiou_on_the_f.html#co
mments

http://strikecuriousposse.blogspot.com/2005/04/generalised-model-is-top-
fashion-model.html

http://glenfuller.blogspot.com/2005/04/badiou-is-funny-and-zizek-
movie.html

> At 08:30 AM 5/4/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> >So, I was reading an article by Badiou that was published in Le 
Monde on 
> >the french ban on the hijab (islamic headscarf). I was struck by the 
> >moments of strange conservativism in his tone, but then he moved 
into the 
> >critique of sexuality as it exists now. And so I wondered (to pick 
up a 
> >thread from an earlier discussion here) if the Deleuzian insistance 
on a 
> >politics of desire was not a relic of the late 60's. Have we not 
already 
> >acheived this proliferation of sexual desires and sexual identities 
and 
> >found that they interfere very little in the movement of Capital. 
Perhaps 
> >I am a little turned around here, been reading too many men in 
> >uncomfortable pants (i.e. Zizek, Lacan, etc.) but isn't desire a 
dead end, 
> >or better yet a dead road, for politics.
> >
> >Just want the discussion and then we can return to the "rhizomatic 
poetry 
> >the sets my soul upon a line of flight to great Georgejacksonutopia 
of 
> >escapes and failed escapes and lost lusts"
> Dear Sid,
> Great idea/line for discussion -- could you provide the ref to the 
> Badiou/Le Monde piece and/or URL where I can download it? The reason 
I ask 
> is that, having just taught a segment (to undergrads no less!) on the 
veil 
> law, I hesitate to make any comments that swerve toward theory 
without 
> having read how the author (in this case Badiou) expresses 
him/herself -- 
> the various position on this issue get so nuanced.
> 
> FYI, I have had my students read the rather amazing Jane Kramer essay 
on 
> this issue from The New Yorker Nov 22, 2004, "Taking the Veil".
> thanks,
> CJ Stivale
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