The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an
endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us
really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding,
how can we challenge the regime of number?
In "Number and Numbers" Alain Badiou offers an philosophically
penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the
attempts that have been made over the last century to define the
special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be
defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put,
nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number
theory. Drawing on the mathematical theory of surreal numbers, he
develops a unified theory of Number as a particular form of being,
an infinite expanse to which our access remains limited. This
understanding of Number as being harbours important philosophical
truths about the structure of the world in which we live.
In Badiou's view, only by rigorously thinking through Number can
philosophy offer us some hope of breaking through the dense and
apparently impenetrable capitalist fabric of numerical relations.
For this will finally allow us to point to that which cannot be
numbered: the possibility of an event that would deliver us from
our unthinking subordination of number.
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