Континуум и срез: философско изслушване на Дельоз и Бадиу (с постоянно позоваване на Чарлс С. Пърс)
Continuum and Cut: A Philosophical Hearing of Deleuze and Badiou (with Continual Reference to Charles S. Peirce)

Summary/Abstract: The article „Continuum and Cut: A Philosophical Hearing of Deleuze and Badiou (with Continual Reference to Charles S. Peirce)“ unfolds a conceptual space in which the opposed philosophical projects of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou are interpreted through the late work of American thinker Charles S. Peirce on the notion of the continuum (continuity).The aim of the text is not only to construct a site where heterogeneous thinkers such as Deleuze and Badiou may be intersected by Peirce’s work, but also to present some of the ontological, epistemological, and even political stakes of the pragmatist conceptualization of continuity–and how these stakes configure (both implicitly and explicitly) central notions in the clash between Deleuze and Badiou. Concepts such as truth, event, becoming, Life, the generic (indiscernible), etc. Furthermore, the article introduces a notion of the continuum as discontinuous (discrete) continuity – as a complex operation of formulating increasingly strict ontological and logical constraints through which real possibilities in abductions (hypotheses) or events crystallize. The latter is articulated through a critical reading of Fernando Zalamea’s seminal study on Peirce’s continuum „Peirce’s Logic of Continuity: A Conceptual and Mathematical Approach“. In other words, the text proposes the continuum as a key procedure of „cutting and waiting“, by which to conceptualize the effects of certain events, alongside the ways in which the recognized events themselves transform their operative positions. Lastly, the article seeks to serve as a radical preliminary attempt at conceptual hearing and productive encounter between heterogeneous traditions and thinkers. An encounter that may open new trajectories for thinking the rupture between the figures of Deleuze and Badiou (still central for contemporary philosophy), and thus introduce Peirce as a particularly polemical third one in and within their confrontation.

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