Jasper/Judith/all
Yes it is. nicely put.
both: "genomics represents a general tendency in late capitalism
for the sphere of representation/culture to collapse into and
become co-extensive with the social or economic." and the larger
Badiou quote is exceptionally interesting because it displays some
of the profound limitations in Badiou's work. The use of the word
'apolitical' implies a concept of the political which is to
limited. And yet the centrality of emancipation precisely mirrors
my/our ontological work, philosophy is always ontological and as
such precedes ethics and cultural work. One of my reasons for my
interest in this specific topic is the convergance between the
ontological work focused on difference, equivalence, and equality.
One of the events that began the current trajectory was a meeting
with a particularly anti-humanist, communist, geneticist from India
who made the rather important proposition that there is an absolute
equality, an equivalence between all genes, genes as singularities.
It's this which requires that we are cautious in the adoption of
meaningful phrases like 'late capitalism' which in its reference to
Mandel's rather lovely book, runs into my scientist who demands
that we think rather differently and recognize that science is not
capital.
best
steve
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