A Realism that is Still Speculative: The Blogosphere After Badiou

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Alain Badiou’s 2012 book Philosophy for Militants.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve found myself wondering repeatedly about the extent to which philosophy needs to play catch up again, just as Badiou demands it must in much of his post-2007 writings. After all the complexity of Being & Event, it seems (perhaps under the influence of his good friend Žižek) that he realised the broader consequences of his philosophy warrant a more accessible form of present...