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Childhood and youth
Military black
The Stroke of Midnight
The black dog in the dark
The inkwell
Chalk and markers
Confusions
Early sexuality
The dialectics of black
Dialectical ambiguities
Black souls
Soulages' ultrablack
Flags
Red and black. And white. And violet.
Stendhal: the red and the black
The dark desire of/for darkness
Clothing
The black sign
Black humor, or black vs. black
Outward appearance
Physics, biology, and anthropology
The metaphorical black of the Cosmos
The secret blackness of plants
Animal black
An invention of white people
Alain Badiou is a writer, philosopher, and an Emeritus Professor at the École n Normale Supérieure, Paris.
“Badiou’s Black is a singular and remarkable book. This is not the
Badiou of ontology, set theory and the theorization of
subjectivity, nor the Badiou of incisive political intervention or
philosophical-historical summation. Working through a series of
ficto-critical vignettes, Black is composed of subtle and diverse
meditations on black as a darkness that obscures at the same time
as it discloses. Black at once hearkens back to a style of personal
philosophy that seemed lost with Blanchot, while also looking
forward to a new mode of singular meditation that is perhaps
necessary for twenty-first-century thought.”
Claire Colebrook, Penn State University
"Alain Badiou's Black: The Brilliance of a Noncolor is a radical
departure for the impenetrable thinker of Theory of the Subject and
Being and Event. It's more in the tradition of Maurice Blanchot (or
even Alexander Theroux, Mark Rothko) than Lacan or Althusser and
casts an evocative pall over the way text, thought, and flesh have
come to negotiate dark and light (black/white)."
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