Antonia Pont

Practitioner and theorist starting a conversation about practising. Follow me for ideas about what practising is, how it works, and encouragement for doing it.

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In 2 days, the Practising book is coming out. Here’s the full cover with words from @joephughes. Thanks Joe for applying your eyes and brain, thanks @EdinburghUP, thanks Justin Gosker for art work. https://t.co/221cFjAk2N — for the lovers, artists, movers, thinkers and activists.

[English & Theatre Studies @ETS_Unimelb]

Super excited to have @AntoniaPont presenting her paper ‘Practicing Theory’ for today’s ETS seminar. Join us at 4:30 in the Old Art’s Public Lecture Theatre, and please bring along a portable silent ‘practice’ (book, sketchbook, knitting etc.)🧶🖋️🧩🧵📓📖

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@_Undt @EdinburghUP Thanks Marcus!! Thanks for sending word. Stay in touch if you feel. Hope there’s stuff you can work with in there. Very best! AP.

[Antonia Pont @AntoniaPont]

In 2 days, the Practising book is coming out. Here’s the full cover with words from @joephughes. Thanks Joe for applying your eyes and brain, thanks @EdinburghUP, thanks Justin Gosker for art work. https://t.co/221cFjAk2N — for the lovers, artists, movers, thinkers and activists.

[IntellectBooks @IntellectBooks]

Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 15.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Teaching Practising: Frameworks, Experiments, Conversations’

Including ‘Teaching practising: Its subtractive sensibilities’ by @AntoniaPont
@TaPRA_

https://t.co/1NhJTAVkYx

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@rharcross Rebecca! You’re the treasure. What an honour to have your eyes on the words. ❤️❤️

[Briohny Doyle @BriohnyDoyle]

@AntoniaPont and I have decided to eschew staged 'conversation' in favour of coordinated outfits, speeches, readings, and jokes for the Melbourne launch of Why We Are Here tomorrow 6:30pm @ReadingsBooks Carlton. Fiesta! You're welcome! 👯‍♀️. Bookings are: https://t.co/HuXNRjjIzE

[Briohny Doyle @BriohnyDoyle]

We will launch again, Melbourne, this coming Tuesday 4/7 @ReadingsBooks with the incomparable @AntoniaPont. Bookings are helpful! https://t.co/HuXNRjjIzE

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@elesebdowden @MSCPhilosophy I take full responsibility for any poor explanation on my part. And the stakes are high with love… clarity matters 😉

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@elesebdowden @MSCPhilosophy But that’s not what I said 💕

[Antonia Pont @AntoniaPont]

Lacan: “Yet there you go, it is not possible for me not to do this worse, just like everyone else. When I say that there is no such thing as a sexual relation, I’m asserting precisely the truth that sex does not define any relation in speaking beings.” SXIX, p 5.

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This whole event is gonna be great. I’m speaking at it, along with my very smart colleagues @justindclemens @NoLuckLopez @ey_ves, @trueffaux, Jon Roffe, Bryan Cooke, John Cleary, Eloise Mignon, Ali Alizadeh & Russell Grigg Free! Please register: zoom or in-person. MSCP events.

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Vale #JackCharles

[sam wallman @wallmansam]

new drawing for @OverlandJournal as a head-nod to the inspiring efforts of nsw @RTBUnion rail workers, whose industrial action has given passengers free travel all month. today bus drivers will also join their strike, wish em luck if ur out on PT https://t.co/fOwrVP0MnZ

[Antonia Pont @AntoniaPont]

“Hopes placed in infinity are supported by truths which are œuvres. But an œuvre can only be distinguished from a déchet by that which it makes rise up, as infinity, as witness to its belonging to some attribute of the absolute.” p.508. Imm des Vérités, Badiou #mscp (trans mine)

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“The prohibition of any presentation of the void can only be immediate & constant if this vanishing point of consistent multiplicity—which is precisely its consistency as operational result—is in turn stopped up, or closed, by a count-as-1 of the operation itself [metastructure]”

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“The Ideas thereby authorise that starting from one simple proper name alone—that, subtractive, of being—the complex proper names differentiate themselves, thanks to which one is marked out: that on which the presentation of an infinity of multiples structures itself.” Badiou BE

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“… no multiple is capable of forming-a-one out of everything it includes. The statement: ‘if [beta] is included in [alpha], then [beta] belongs to [alpha]’ is false for all [alpha]. Inclusion is in irremediable excess of belonging” when [beta]=subset of all ordinary elements, 85

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“This amounts to saying that even if for commodity’s sake we sometimes use the word ‘part’ to designate a subset, there is no more a concept of a whole, and thus of a part, than there is a concept of the one. There is solely the relation of belonging.” Badiou—Being & Event, p. 83

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“The gap between [alpha] (which counts-as-one the belongings, or elements) and [power set of alpha] (which counts-as-one the inclusions, or subsets) is, as we shall see, the point in which the impasse of being resides.” Badiou B&E: 83.