Exactly--or that we regard "genes" themselves as singular entities or
as anything to which any possible notion of "equality" could apply.
Best,
Judith
On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:51 AM, sdv@krokodile.co.uk wrote:
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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