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Militants Do It Diagonally
I was hoping to report that I had finished reading Badiou (or Being and Event, at any rate), and could therefore offer some kind of critical synopsis of the work - a book report, say, or perhaps a lighthearted account of the vicissitudes of attempting to digest the sections on the cardinality of the powerset of ω 0 while travelling on the London underground. As things stand, I've now read through to the end of the book; but I don't feel in any sense as if I've finished it.
The meditations in the latter part of the book, dealing with the subject, the indiscernible, generic procedures and forcing, move quickly over some technically very dense material, and much of the enjoyment I had been taking in the earlier mathematical presentation was lost when this shift in pace occurred. And a puzzle from earlier on remains unresolved: the self-belonging of e x in the mathème of the event remains a mysterious stipulation.
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