Foreword: Alain Badiou, What is it to Live? Alain Badiou; Preface; The Palace's Night of Red and Gold; Chaos as Imposture, Self-Regulation as Festive Neoconservatism; Hobbes's Robinson-Particles; The Average Man as Statistical Degradation of the Ordinary Man; Democracy as Political Market; Market Democracy will be Fluid or will not be at all; Robinsons on Wheels and Petronomads; When Good Sense Turns Nasty; The 'Becassine Memorial Lectures' on Urban Populism; The New French Exception; The Dissident Knights of Professor Walras, or Economic Droit de Seigneur; Towards the End or the Beginning of History; Glossary for the Reader Uninitiated in Political Economy
Gilles Ch telet (1944-1999) was a mathematician and philosopher and
a leading member of the Front homosexuel d'action revolutionnaire
(FHAR). He was Professor at the University of Paris VIII, and
Program Director at the Coll ge Internationale de philosophie.
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher. He has published a number of
major philosophical works, including The Immanence of Truths, the
final installment of his Being and Event trilogy, released in
French in 2018.
Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization
Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of
London.
While a surprising success in France, Châtelet's book was unavailable in English and has been somewhat overlooked. If we had been more aware of it outside of the Francophone context, then the anger and complexity of Chatelet's devastating account of the origins of our condition would have prepared us with frightening clarity and precision for what was to come.—Liam Gillick, e-flux
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