Revisiting Badiou

Before I start writing about this week’s text, I thought I’d briefly revisit Badiou.

One of the most interesting points raised in the lecture for me, was that we have completely lost touch of the real, as we are no longer free thinkers. Everything around us has been defined. Everything seems to have an explanation, and it seems to be impossible to detach ourselves from a way of thinking that has been built into us throughout our whole lives by the society that we live in.

This is something that I have thought about before in terms of understanding what happened to create life (i.e. before the big bang). This may be completely off of the point, but there is a trail of thought that leads to this! I completely accept that we can never know exactly what happened, as we have no way of comprehending it. How can we completely understand something if we are limited by words and numbers, which are simply tools that we have created ourselves? We define everything using these tools, but there must be limits to how much these can explain. In this case, I think it is impossible to ever understand what is the real.