“You are, are you not, a communist?”
(I just watched the Badiou interview - thanks for sharing that B. It looks like reserves of pomposity at the BBC are still at 1950’s levels.)
Relatedly I chanced upon an excellent resource with detailed notes on some of the Birkbeck conference papers. I thought these may be of interest, both for those who were there and those who weren’t. There is also a complete transcript of Alberto Toscano’s paper.
Blog with notes on papers given by Ranciere, Zizek and Michael Hardt
http://thekubrickiangaze.blogspot.com/
Toscano’s paper, entitled “Communist Power/Communist Knowledge”:
http://thekubrickiangaze.blogspot.com/2009/03/communist-powercommunist-knowledge.html
