Badiou mit Deleuze über (In-)Differenz und die Macht der Gleichheit
| Autoři | |
|---|---|
| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| Popis | In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze speaks of a “leap” of essence. He defines this leap as a “transgression of limits.” However, the limit (peras) should not be understood as that which holds and limits or separates the thing under a law, but rather that “from which it spreads and unfolds its full power.” It is precisely through such a transgression of boundaries that “the sole maximum at which the developed diversity of all things touches on equality” and “the smallest equals the largest.” This unique combination of Nietzsche's maxim of “Become who you are!” with Spinoza's radical notion of equality without identity finds an interesting echo 50 years later in Badiou's later work. In The Immanence of Truths (2018) [L’immanence des Vérités], Badiou speaks of an “egalitarian power of the collective” that emerges as a “convergence of heterogeneous multiplicities“ in in a refusal of separation. Badiou says that the power of such a collective, which is almost nothing when measured against the unattainable cardinality of the situation, may eventually equal the power of the entire global situation. This is an eventful power of equality without „one", that power which multiplicities achieve when they detach themselves from their identified, classified, differential, value, which separates them from the infinity. The paper elaborates on the Deleuzian motifs in Badiou's strategy of thinking equality without one and without identity, or as I call it leaning on the double meaning of the German word „Gleich-Gültigkeit": equality without equivalence and without indifference. According to Badiou, the eventful “egalitarian power of the collective” cannot be attributed to difference: The defined, i.e., identical differences are indifferent; they always refer us to the power of the one. Only a break with difference, i.e., a speculative indifference that is indifferent to both identity and difference, can bring about the “transgression” meant by Deleuze. How can we think of the egalitarian potentiality of 'indifference to difference'? |
| Související projekty: |