Alain Badiou. Infinity and Set Theory: Repetition and Succession. 2011

source: European Graduate School     2012年1月2日
http://www.egs.edu Alain Badiou, French philosopher, mathematician and author, talking about the operation of succession and naming in set theory. In this lecture, Alain Badiou discusses nothingness and infinity as two forms of being, the materiality of names, creative repetition and the matheme of the infinite in relationship to Plato, René Descartes, Georg Cantor, Jacques Lacan, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze focusing on being, existence, negation, affirmation, the indefinite, the encore, creative repetition, subjectivity, weak and strong infinity, omega, Faust, jouissance and woman. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Alain Badiou.