What is the relationship between ethics and politics ? But why are we asking this question here in the first place ? In “Ethics” of Alain Badiou, the importance of this question seems to be exposed twice and from two different points of view. Firstly, Badiou criticizes nowadays’ politicians and (…)

Nous avons essayé de montrer dans Le musée, l’origine de l’esthétique que la question de l’art n’est possible que du fait de l’institution de cet appareil spécial qu’on appelle musée, parce qu’il suspend, met entre parenthèses, la destination cultuelle des œuvres, c’est-à-dire leur capacité (…)

It was my intention to show, in Le musée, l’origine de l’esthétique, that the question of art is only possible due to the existence of the institution of that special apparatus we call a museum, because it suspends, or puts in parentheses, the cult destination of the works, that is to say their (…)