Sites, truths and the logics of worlds: Alain Badiou and human geography
Sites, truths and the logics of worlds: Alain Badiou and human geography
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地点、真理和世界逻辑：阿兰·巴迪欧和人文地理学
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2010
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I. Shaw
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本文论证了阿兰·巴迪欧的“位点”在人文地理学中的政治重要性。位点是一个能够摧毁旧世界并创造新世界的激进政治场所。巴迪欧近期出版的《世界的逻辑》（2009年，Continuum出版社，伦敦）阐述了世界是如何形成的。理解这部作品的关键在于巴迪欧对“民主唯物主义”的批判，“民主唯物主义”是一个涵盖德勒兹及后现代哲学的统称，其定义为：“只有身体和语言”。巴迪欧用他的“唯物主义辩证法”来反驳这一观点，该辩证法强调真理在一个世界中所能产生的干预作用：“只有身体和语言，但存在真理”。位点的无限潜能对一个世界表象的颠覆被视为真理的浮现。当前人文地理学中对位点的理论阐述没有将真理作为一个政治范畴加以考虑。因此，本文是对位点作为一个特殊政治场所的辩护，在这里，唯物主义辩证法的信念——“但存在真理”——得以彰显。
This paper argues for the political importance of Alain Badiou’s ‘site’ in human geography. A site is a place of radical politics capable of destroying old worlds and creating
new ones. Badiou’s recently published Logics of worlds (2009, Continuum, London) is an
account of how worlds come to exist. Critical to understanding this work is Badiou’s
critique of ‘democratic materialism’, an umbrella term used for Deleuzian and postmodern philosophies, defined by the phrase: ‘there are only bodies and languages’.
Badiou counters this with his ‘materialist dialectic’, which emphasises the intervention
truth can make in a world: ‘there are only bodies and languages, except that there are
truths’. The subversion of the appearance of a world by the infinite potential of the site
is cast as the emergence of a truth. Current theorisations of the site in human geography do not take into account truth as a political category. The paper is thus a defence
of the site as an exceptional place of politics, where the materialist dialectic conviction:
‘except that there are truths’ is rendered visible.