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A review by fuhhlarzablur
Metapolitics by Alain Badiou
4.0
This is Badiou at the most lucid I've thus far encountered him, and the most explicitly anti-State form of his Communist thought shines through in this book. The reflections on democracy, justice, and the Thermidorian are especially illuminating.
Unfamiliar as I am with his major referents - Lazarus, Althusser, Ranciere - I found the first of these foci difficult to fixate upon, but the briefer chapters on the other two were easier to access. The mathemes in the final chapter are mildly obscure, but much more straightforward than most of the Lacanian algebra I've come across, and they hardly detract from the thesis of the chapter.
Unfamiliar as I am with his major referents - Lazarus, Althusser, Ranciere - I found the first of these foci difficult to fixate upon, but the briefer chapters on the other two were easier to access. The mathemes in the final chapter are mildly obscure, but much more straightforward than most of the Lacanian algebra I've come across, and they hardly detract from the thesis of the chapter.