Reading Theory: Alain Badiou's *Being and Event*

For most of us in the reading group, we've read around Badiou, know that he has a idiosyncratic committment to revolutionary struggles (especially Maoism), and understand in brief, caricatured synopsis his claims about the relationship between the Event, the truth it reveals, and the way in which it remains fundamentally obscure or ungraspable.  But none of us have tried to actually work our way through Being and Event, Badiou's major work in which he outlines a new theory of radical subjectivity via mathematical ontology, and so this summer, we're going to fix that, spending the month of July working through Badiou's text in full, together.
The book has eight parts, and we're going to do two each week.  If you'd like to participate, please read the first two parts before the first meeting on July 6th.  If you'd like to order a copy of the book at a 20% discount from Red Emma's, please email books@redemmas.org.