event

collective noun

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is a break that is immanent to the thinking of a situation. It is that which brings to pass something other than the situation.

In comparison, Badiou is concerned with encounters that disrupt ontology, that interrupt or suspend the activities of naming and counting within a situation. In fact, Badiou states that the event is always a breaking of the count (Badiou, 2001: 134-5). For Badiou then, the event is a break that is immanent to the thinking of a situation.'

is a genre calibrated according to the intensities and kinds of impact.

An event is a genre calibrated according to the intensities and kinds of impact. (berlant slow death 759)

is a moment in which symbolic, political, and economic planes converge.

a moment in which symbolic, political, and economic planes converge

is a transformation or disruption of the habits and hierarchies that order the intensities that traverse the body.

We could say that for Deleuze an event is registered as a transformation or disruption of the habits and hierarchies that order the intensities that traverse the body: for Deleuze, events are immanent to a body and its hierarchies. In comparison, Badiou is concerned with encounters that disrupt ontology, that interrupt or suspend the activities of naming and counting within a situation. In fact, Badiou states that the event is always a breaking of the count (Badiou, 2001: 134-5). For Badiou then, the event is a break that is immanent to the thinking of a situation.'

is something radically singular, irruptive, unanticipatable and beyond apprehension. An event must uncontainably overflow its own 'context' and representation.

For Derrida, an event worthy of the name must be radically singular, irruptive, unanticipatable and, in a certain way, beyond apprehension. An event must uncontainably overflow its own 'context' and representation. In recounting an event, let alone attributing its meaning or significance, one must draw upon discursive and other resources that are available within an existing field. Yet to earn its name, for Derrida, the event must go beyond the realms of an already-possible possibility. . . . The event in its absolute singularity is thus resistant to cognitive description, critical objectification, interpretative reduction and, for that matter, 'theoretical' elaboration.'

 has a beginning and an end. Every human experience, activity, idea and cultural form can be analyzed as an event or as a series of events.

something that has a beginning and an end. Every human experience, activity, idea and cultural form can be analyzed as an event or as a series of events. Foucault uses the event as a way of arguing against metaphysical essences in history.' (')

is something worth photographing. But ideology still determines what constitutes an event. Not until the event itself has been named and characterized can we provide evidence of it.

Though an event has come to mean, precisely, something worth photographing, it is still ideology (in the broadest sense) that determines what constitutes an event. There can be no evidence, photographic or otherwise, of an event until the event itself has been named and characterized' (Sontag 'on photography' 19)

is able to be seen only by those who are on a level with it, just as great passions are for the great of soul.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them Oscar Wilde

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