Friday the 13th wrap-up

Nice seminar at the ENS. Louis Morelle did a great job presenting his paper, and it was followed by a lively discussion by a number of participants. (I wasn’t expecting Tristan Garcia to show up, but he did, and I also met Martin Fortier for the second time and a number of others for the first time.)

Most surprising impression: people talk about bridging the analytic-continental divide, and this was actually the most I’ve ever seen it done– in Paris! At one point I heard Badiou and D.M. Armstrong contrasted in the same sentence, for example.

Anyway, it looks to me like French philosophy for the age-30-and-under group is in excellent hands. This is a brilliant, unpretentious, undogmatic group of people.

It was held in the basement of the ENS Philosophy Building, and I do believe it was directly underneath the office of Quentin Meillassoux and Frédéric Worms.

All right, I need a quick dinner here to get ready for tomorrow’s trip to a neighboring country. I’ll post from there.