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7 Dec 2009

Dialogue as Monologue

In his discussion of the problematic of Kantian synthetic judgment and the “paradox of pedagogy” found in Plato’s doctrine of anamnesis, as put forward in the Meno, Kojin Karatani makes the following intriguing remarks:

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22 Nov 2009

Uniting Subject and Structure

Last night, as I was reading Adrian Johnston’s Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, I noticed an interesting isomorphism between Badiou and Kojin Karatani (Žižek fits here as well, I’m just too lazy to pull out efficacious quotes):

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