# Event Details

- **Event Name**: CHANGE OF DATE | QSCP - First Seminar of 2026 - Dr Christopher Boerdam: Žižek vs Badiou
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 am – Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 am
- **Event Description**: PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE TO MARCH 5. Apologies for the late change.

Our first seminar of 2026 is coming up this week. Also we have moved locations - we are now running the seminars at the University of Queensland. See below for all the details.  

Žižek vs Badiou: The Subject of Dialectical Materialism

Dr Christopher Boerdam

Thursday 19th February 2026

University of Queensland, Forgan Smith, Room E215, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Žižek and Badiou are two self-professed proponents of dialectical materialism, defined by Badiou as the belief that: ‘there are only bodies and languages, except that there are truths.’ Against what Žižek has called scientific materialism or discursive materialism, and against what Badiou calls democratic materialism (that asserts the existence only of bodies and languages), dialectical materialism involves an attempt to think the traditional idealist categories of the infinite or the eternal within a materialist frame by conceiving material reality as non-all. But these two thinkers’ versions of dialectical materialism rely on different conceptions of subjectivity. For Žižek, the subject is a pre-evental point of negativity or the Real which is a necessary condition not only of an encounter with the Truth-Event but of reality itself. For Badiou, the subject is a post-evental effect of a truth process that involves faithfully working through the implications of a Truth-Event in a particular situation. In this paper I will argue that the different ways in which these thinkers conceptualise the subject has important implications for the ontological and political dimensions of their thought. In exploring these differences, I will attempt to evaluate the extent to which Žižek’s and Badiou’s dialectical materialisms are compatible.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/st-lucia/change-of-date-|-qscp-first-seminar-of-2026-dr-christopher-boerdam-Žižek-vs-badiou/200029699569709
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- **city**: St Lucia
- **state**: QL
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: The University of Queensland (Forgan Smith, Room E215)
- **lat**: -27.497135209159
- **long**: 153.01442150635
- **full address**: The University of Queensland (Forgan Smith, Room E215), Unisex, Campbell Pl, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia, St Lucia

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  - **A:** CHANGE OF DATE | QSCP - First Seminar of 2026 - Dr Christopher Boerdam: Žižek vs Badiou takes place on Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 am to Thu, 05 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 am at The University of Queensland (Forgan Smith, Room E215), Unisex, Campbell Pl, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia, St Lucia.
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