Status Updates From Infinite Thought (Impacts)

استفاده از ریاضی، یا درست‌تر استفادهٔ استعاری از ریاضی، توسط بدیو به نظرم در بهترین حالت یه ضرورت روشی و نظریه، در یه حالت یه تلاش رتوریک برای تاثیر روی مخاطبه و در بدترین حالت یه فریب برای مخاطبی است که ریاضی بلد نیست. مخصوصا که در میان مخاطبین احتمالی بدیو احتمال وقوع این قسم از خوانندگان ناآشنا با ریاضیات بیشتره.

"Philosophy is like the attic where, in difficult times, one accumulates resources, lines up tools, and sharpens knives. Philosophy is exactly that which proposes an ample stock of means to other forms of thought. This time, it is on the side of affirmation and infinity that philosophy must select and accumulate its resources, its tools and knives."

There's something very touching - I think this is the right word - about Badiou's absolute concern and commitment to the vocation that is philosophy. It's clear that more than just 'doing' philosophy, at every point he wants to also think about what this thing called philosophy *is*, and it's clear that this question conditions his practice of philosophy from top to bottom.