February 26, 2009
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Ash Wednesday continued...
Truth and
Consequences: From Roger Cohen
to Alain Badiou
to Wallace Stevens"That summer of '68, I was in a vast crowd in London's sunlit Hyde Park listening to Pink Floyd's free concert:
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun!Right on! Anything seemed possible...."
-- Roger Cohen, May 28, 2008, on 1968,
"The Year That Changed the World""Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris."
"The Event of Truth,"
European Graduate School video:
Quoted by Badiou at
European Graduate School,
August 2002:We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
On the piano and in speech,
As in a page of poetry—
Thinkers without final thoughts
In an always incipient cosmos.
The way, when we climb a mountain,
Vermont throws itself together.-- Wallace Stevens,
from "July Mountain"Or Pennsylvania:
