Lecture of 23rd November 2015

Abstract

In this lecture, which aims at an elucidation of what happened on the 13th of November in Paris, the speaker designates the perpetrated mass murder as one of many current symptoms of a serious disease of the contemporary world as a whole, while attempting at the same time to outline the possible ways for a healing of this disease, of which the proliferation of similar events in the world is but a particularly violent and particularly spectacular symptom. Starting out from a brief analysis of the world as it is today, characterised by mass crimes and the war declared by the State, the speaker then returns to the actual situation, describing it not as it is, but rather as the situation that we should desire that it becomes, involving the will and action that will make similar symptoms disappear. In conclusion, the speaker considers the possibility of a different thought, one that would evade the traps of the shaping of public opinion and the reactive orientation of the State. Such a thought will focus on the conditions of what the speaker calls a return of politics, more precisely, a return of emancipatory politics, this being a politics that will reject all inclusion within the framework of the world, as was described at the beginning.