The Arab uprisings represent the radical opening of political possibility. Instead of instructing protesters about democracy, we should learn from the uprisings
Whyte 11 ( Awakening the Giant Is the long night of the left drawing to a close? Jessica Whyte writes on contemporary European philosophy, political theory and critical accounts of human rights. She wrote a PhD on the political thought of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and is currently a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Analysis at the University of Western Sydney http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/99/long-night-left.html)
The events in the Middle East, for Badiou, ...opinion molded by the propaganda of the Western powers.
Whatever the actual outcome of the uprisings will be, we should embrace their open potentiality
Lear 11 (Ben Lear editor for Shift magazine Badiou on the Arab Spring March 24 http://res0nance.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/badiou-on-the-arab-spring/)
Badiou’s piece as Joe comments is certainly an ... European Winter as it heads North?
Understanding the revolutions through the lens of social science misses their emancipatory potential
Coombs 11 (Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies , Issue 4 (2011) 138 Political Semantics of the Arab Revolts/Uprisings/Riots/ Insurrections/Revolutions Nathan Coombs Royal Holloway, University of London Graduate Student, Politics and International Relations Co-editor of the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies)
To do this we firstly have to differentiate our ... the regime of knowledge with an irreducible novelty.
The political truth represented by Tahrir Square is a resonant example of the political power of an Event, an occurrence which, through its universal appeal, demands the reorientation of our politics
Oliver 12/21 (Alain Badiou, the “event”, and political subjectivity Bert Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He holds an MA and DPhil in philosophy, has held postdoctoral fellowships in philosophy at Yale University in the US on more than one occasion, and has held a research fellowship at the University of Wales, Cardiff http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/bertolivier/2011/12/21/alain-badiou-the-%E2%80%9Cevent%E2%80%9D-and-political-subjectivity/)
It is not difficult to understand the recent, ... society from the time of its “advent”.
Regardless of the facts on the ground, Events have unique ethical potential
Oliver 12/21 (Alain Badiou, the “event”, and political subjectivity Bert Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He holds an MA and DPhil in philosophy, has held postdoctoral fellowships in philosophy at Yale University in the US on more than one occasion, and has held a research fellowship at the University of Wales, Cardiff http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/bertolivier/2011/12/21/alain-badiou-the-%E2%80%9Cevent%E2%80%9D-and-political-subjectivity/)
Fine words, critics of this kind of ... to an event: that which this fidelity produces in the situation”.
Fidelity to the potential of an event communicates the universal character of particular truths and enables a different kind of ethical subjectivity
Hallward 1 (Peter Hallward 2001 professor at Kingston Philosophy School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil Translators introduction)
Access to the realm of truth, by contrast, is ... universal, most anonymous) 'stuff of the situation belongs.
Events open up the possibility for radical transformation
Oliver 12/21 (Alain Badiou, the “event”, and political subjectivity Bert Olivier is Professor of Philosophy at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He holds an MA and DPhil in philosophy, has held postdoctoral fellowships in philosophy at Yale University in the US on more than one occasion, and has held a research fellowship at the University of Wales, Cardiff http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/bertolivier/2011/12/21/alain-badiou-the-%E2%80%9Cevent%E2%80%9D-and-political-subjectivity/)
Alain Badiou, whose work is, as far ... a new way of being,” says Badiou (2002: 41).
This affirmation of possibility in the face of the status quo is essential to breaking with the nihilism of conservative ethics
Badiou 1 (Alain Badiou 2001 professor at European Graduate School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil 38-39)
It is only by declaring that we want what ...content is the deciding of death - of an ethic of truths.
These conservative ethics turn humanity into nothing more than its bare existence. This eliminates the Immortal aspects of humanity which make life valuable and justifies imperialism.
Badiou 1 (Alain Badiou 2001 professor at European Graduate School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil 10-12)
The heart of the question concerns the ...of its own incompetence, its own inanity - in short, of its subhumanity
In attempting to find the least Evil political option, this limited response to possibility prevents any sort of positive engagement with the world and justifies the status quo.
Badiou 1 (Alain Badiou 2001 professor at European Graduate School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil 13-14)
2. In the second place, because if the ethical ... simply to forbid him humanity as such.
Focusing on the necessity of the status quo robs us of any concept of possibility, making politics meaningless and dooming us to nihilism
Badiou 1 (Alain Badiou 2001 professor at European Graduate School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil 31-33)
The modern name for necessity is, as ... back to the conservative identity that sustains it.
Instead, our ethics must be focused around the universal aspect of truth events – Ethics based on difference fail to be intersubjective
Badiou 1 (Alain Badiou 2001 professor at European Graduate School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil 27-28)
Philosophically, if the other doesn't matter it ...subjective types as there are procedures of truths.
We advocate for a relationship of fidelity with the political possibilities inherent in Tahrir square.
Ethics must be situated around particular situations like the event of Tahrir Square – there is no a priori ethics
Hallward 1 (Peter Hallward 2001 professor at Kingston Philosophy School, Ethics – an essay on the understanding of evil Translators introduction)
Badiou's fundamentally 'divisive' ethics makes ... particular configurations of active thought.
A political opening must be untainted by the state
Badiou 10 (2010 The Communist Hypothesis ALAIN BADIOU Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran 227-228)
I believe this otherworld resides for us ...state, the creation of a thoroughly political discipline.
