[Commlist] MSCP Workshop - Badiou's The Immanence of Truths

*Alain Badiou’s /The Immanence of Truths/*
*A 1-Day Workshop hosted by the MSCP*

/The Immanence of Truths/ is the final volume of Alain Badiou’s Being 
and Event trilogy, which sets out the core of his metaphysics of truth. 
The central claim of this new book is that truths in the domains of art, 
science, politics and love have something that touches on the absolute, 
enabling them to transcend the local and historical conditions from 
which they are produced. To develop this theory of the absolute, Badiou 
draws on a part of the mathematical theory of sets called the theory of 
large cardinals which explore the different forms of infinity in the 
mathematical universe. Badiou sees within these results a theory of the 
infinity of truths as that within a truth procedure which allows it to 
go beyond the finitude specific to a given world. When this occurs, 
something finite is produced which nonetheless carries the mark or index 
of the absolute and infinite in it, which Badiou calls a work. With this 
metaphysical framework in place,  Badiou then sets out what a work is in 
each of the four truth conditions, and how they are indexed to the absolute.

Broadly following the structure of the book, this one day workshop aims 
firstly to present and discuss the major themes and concepts of Badiou’s 
theory of the absolute nature of truth processes, including the 
absolute, the infinite and finite, ‘recouvrement’ and a work. The second 
half of the day will explore the theory of works in relation to each of 
the specific truth procedures, having a speaker present and discuss 
Badiou’s ideas, and then a respondent to react to these claims, in order 
to frame a more polemical discussion of the consequences of this book.

Convened by: John Cleary, Ali Alizadeh, Caitlyn Lesiuk.

Date: Friday the 28th of October.

Location: Masson Theatre (Chemistry Building), The University of 
Melbourne. A live stream will also be available.

Free Registration is available here:
https://mscp.org.au/events/the-immanence-of-truths 
<https://mscp.org.au/events/the-immanence-of-truths>

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