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Badiou absolutely shitting all over vitalism.

Badiou deals with Heidegger so thoroughly and in such a way that he ruins everything mystical in Heidegger’s thinking. No more destiny. No more messianism.

“Staging also involves this ability to achieve a disjunctive synthesis.”

Badiou takes Foucault and Heidegger to task on their apolitical nature of power.

“The violence that forces a person to become a commodified body is not exactly a violence against the body. It's a violence against the body's capacity for ideas, its capacity to serve as a support for more than just its own interests, its enjoyment, or its self-preservation. It's a violence that imposes the imperative: "Enjoy yourself however you like, enjoy yourself however you can!"”

Badiou suggests that we must invent a new concept of slowness in face of the tumultuous present but not a slowness that resembles a narcotic stupor.

Philosophers know nothing of enjoyment.