O'Sullivan, Simon D.. 2009. The Strange Temporality of the Subject: Badiou and Deleuze Between the Finite and the Infinite. Subjectivity, 27, pp. 155-171. ISSN 17556341 [Article]

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This paper stages an encounter between the philosophical systems of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze specifically as these relate to the production of subjectivity, or what I call the finite/infinite relation. I attempt to demonstrate that for Badiou a bar of sorts between the finite and the infinite remains determining, whereas for Deleuze – and specifically with his actual/virtual couplet – this bar no longer operates. The paper is at times quite technical in its excavation of the systems in question; however, the introduction and conclusion foreground what is at stake in this confrontation: a certain militant orientation to that which is beyond the world versus an ethical and experimental attitude that is located firmly within the world.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2009.5
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event July 2009 Published
Item ID:	3408
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2011 13:04
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 14:26
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/3408

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