This lecture is in English. You find the abstract in English below.
Föreläsningen tar avstamp i filosofen Alain Badious tankar om att sanning inte är något på förhand givet, utan en process som följer på ett slags brott i kunskapens ordning. Badious syn på sanning problematiseras och utforskas i relation till sanningen som fenomen för subjektet, i kärleken, i filosofin och i psykoanalysen. Föreläsningen är en del av föreläsningsserien 'Truth and knowledge' som arrangeras under våren 2026.
Medverkande
Lorenzo Chiesa, lektor i filosofi vid Newcastle University
Plats
Anti bokhandel i Malmö
Övrig information
Föreläsningen hålls på engelska. Föreläsningen är kostnadsfri och ingen föranmälan krävs.
Föreläsningen hålls samarbete med Aning - Förening för Filosofi och Psykoanalys och ges med stöd från Folkuniversitetsföreningen.
English
According to Alain Badiou, there are no pre-established truths. Instead, there are truth procedures, initiated by an event that disrupts the order of knowledge. The subject originates from a nomination of and fidelity to an event. It becomes a finite fragment of an infinite truth-procedure. Truth-procedures can be political, scientific, artistic, and amorous. Philosophy is not a truth-procedure, and its aim is rather to think the circulation among these truth-procedures. With respect to Lacanian psychoanalysis, Badiou’s position proves inconsistent, or at best ambivalent. On the one hand, he relegates it to the marginal role of a theory of the truth-procedure of the subject in love. On the other hand, he more convincingly postulates that it might be, theoretically and practically, a nascent and independent truth-procedure, yet it is “too young, extraordinarily recent”. My wager in this paper and my current project in general is that the legacy of the late Lacan revolves precisely around constructing a distinctly psychoanalytic truth-procedure. The notorious “dissolution” of his School and the concomitant delineation of a psychoanalytic “field” that opposes any “group” should be situated in such context. First and foremost, this involves thinking the passage from the end of individual, terminable analysis, as treatment, or, approximatively, what Lacan calls the discourse of the analyst, to the commencement of a wider, interminable discourse of psychoanalysis.
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Lorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher who was educated in Canada (International Baccalaureate, UWC Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia), Italy (MA-BA, University of Trieste), and the UK (PhD, University of Warwick). He was previously Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent, where he founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought. Chiesa has held visiting positions at multiple institutions in Europe, the US, and Asia. He is presently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University (UK), where he is also serving as co-convenor of the Faculty Research Group in Critical Theory and Practice. Chiesa has published and taught extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy of religion, French and Italian theory, biopolitics, and Marxism.
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