Covering Part 2 of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event on “Belonging, Inclusion, and the State,” Alex and Andrew discuss belonging, inclusion, and the state through Badiou’s set-theoretical philosophy of the situation.

Guest Nick Nesbitt outlines an anti-colonial politics of the revolutionary event through an encounter between Caribbean thinkers and Badiou. Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University and author or editor of many books including Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (2008). Nesbitt is also the editor of a collection of writings and speeches by Toussaint Louverture, titled The Haitian Revolution (also published in 2008).

Concepts related to Belonging and Inclusion

Sets, The Situation, Inclusion and Belonging, Multiples, Infinity, GWF Hegel on Infinity, The Continuum Hypothesis, Lack and Excess, Power Set, Null Sets, The State, Undocumented Family, Marxism, the State, Socialism.

Interview with Nick Nesbitt

Badiou’s Logic of Worlds, Worlds, Toussaint Louverture, the Event, French versus Haitian Revolutions (1789/1804), Abstraction, Universality, and the Axiom of Equality, CLR James, Structural Causality, Baruch Spinoza, Édouard Glissant, Louis Althusser, Slavery and Color.

Links

Nick Nesbitt profile, https://fit.princeton.edu/people/f-nick-nesbitt

Nesbitt papers, https://princeton.academia.edu/NickNesbitt

Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment, https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3705/

Nesbitt, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean, https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5724/

Louverture, The Haitian Revolution, edited by Nesbitt, https://www.versobooks.com/books/3046-the-haitian-revolution