I want you to read and mentally digest an essay from this 'little red book'. The essay is easily found on the web as long as you search for Alain Badiou This Crisis Is the Spectacle: Where Is the Real? It's one of those modest pieces of writing that could blow your socks off. Often Badiou, whilst frighteningly clever, is a bit dense, but this piece is written for a newspaper, hence is more readable.
Please read Jonathan Meades on Zaha Hadid in combination with this text.

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Discussion: It's difficult to gain a perspective on Badiou at this stage. His introduction at this point was to highlight our necessary confrontation with the question 'What is the Real?' This of course implies we are 'living in a lie', as evidenced by our highly theatrical (and highly nuanced) media and politics where vested interests, not the benefit of all, are paraded before us in a clear period of global crisis. If you are wondering what this global crisis might be, four corners of the discussion might be: Climate Change, Increased National and Global Inequality, Financial Iniquity and the challenges of the Bio-technological.

Theory 750

A 750, just fast enough to kill you, but big enough to have some real fun. It takes a while to get to ride a 750, you might start at 250, move up to 500, then graduate to the real thing. That's my first bike up there, a Honda G5 250 and I was 22.
Theory can fuck you up, it's a well known means to stop you doing anything. The purpose of this course is to talk theory as if it's almost common sense. It won't fuck you up, it might just make you angry.
We go backwards from today. Start by reading Jonathan Meades on Zaha Hadid from the (absurdly titled) 'Intelligent Life' magazine and Alain Badiou's 'If this is the Spectacle, where is the Real' both available via the net.
The books you will need to study from then on, in sequence, are:

Mike Davis: Evil Paradises
Terry Eagleton: After Theory
Dave Hickey: Air Guitar
Marshall Berman: All that's Solid Melts in to Air
Henri Lefebvre: The Production of Space
Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead (film)
John Doss Passos: USA

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