Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change

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269 Index Not all occurrences of references to the following figures, due to the frequency with which they’re referenced , are indexed: Alain Badiou, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, Jacques Lacan, Mao Tse-Tung, Karl Marx, and Slavoj Žižek. The same holds here for mentions of such frequently used terms as appearance(s), capitalism/late-capitalism, dialectics/dialectical, event/evental, ideology/ideological, revolution/revolutionary, situation(s), truth(s), unconscious, and world/worldly. Adorno, Theodor W., 181, 202, 209, 222 affect, xxxii, 38, 60, 74–75 Allen, Woody, 195 Al-Qaeda, 43–46 Althusser, Louis, 55, 63, 136 interpellation, 71, 76, 79, 157 anti-Semitism, 181, 193–94, 197 Aristotle, xxii authoritarian personality, 181 Badiou, Alain: affect, xxxi, 60, 62, 66–78 affects of truth, 69–70, 72–75, 77 algebra vs. topology, 120 anti-philosophy, 174, 188–89, 192, 198–99, 203, 205 anxiety, 69–70, 77–78 atonality, 63, 72–75, 78, 80, 176 axiom, 31 becoming, 8 being qua being (l’être en tant qu’être), 10, 14, 24–25, 27, 76, 135–37, 140 being there (être-là), 24, 28 being vs. existence, 26–28 being vs. non-being, 25–26, 137–38, 140 body, 34, 41, 64–68, 71–72, 150, 156 category theory, 24 communist invariants, 156 conditions of philosophy/generic procedures , xxi, 10, 38, 69, 75, 129, 156 confidence, 37–38, 57, 60–61, 67, 80 consequence, 33, 72 count of the count, 62, 149 counting-for-one (compter-pour-un), 138, 149, 175, 201, 205 courage, 38, 40, 60–62, 67, 69–70, 73, 75, 77–78, 80 death/finitude/mortality, 68, 78, 154, 156–57, 177 deed/occurrence (fait), 8–9, 27 democratic materialism, 75, 79, 192 destruction, 21, 30, 34, 140, 155, 163 directive, 31 discipline, 34–35, 68 disinterested interests, 68 encyclopedia, 58–60, 62, 70, 130 enquiry/inquiry, 18–19, 31, 51, 61, 77 ethics of truths, 61 evental site, 8, 24–30, 35, 48, 62–63, 112, 130–33, 138, 161–63, 165, 176 excrescent multiples/multiplicities/ terms, 61–62 faith/fidelity, 15–16, 18, 28, 30, 33, 35, 48, 58, 60–61, 68–69, 73, 76–78, 80, 148, 175–76 forcing (forçage), 15–16, 18, 20–21, 32– 33, 51, 57–62, 66–67, 70, 72–74, 77, 80, 132–34 generic, 35, 38, 41 grace, 18–19, 74, 131, 166, 213 heroism, 60, 73, 77–78 history, xxx, 9–14, 17–18, 20–21, 25, 30, 34, 48, 64, 111–12, 133, 139, 141, 150, 177, 187 idea, 52, 177–78, 184 idéalinguisterie, 120–23 idealism, 119–23, 131, 136–37, 139, 212 270 I N D E X state/state-of-the-situation, xxix, 9, 13– 16, 20, 22–23, 25–43, 46, 51–54, 58, 60–62, 70–71, 73–74, 76–77, 80, 114, 117, 129, 131–34, 138, 149, 157, 161, 163, 165, 167, 172, 187 strong singularity, 9, 24, 27 subject-of-the-event, 10, 15–16, 19, 21, 28, 30, 32–35, 38, 45, 48, 52, 57–62, 64, 67–68, 72–74, 76–77, 114, 131– 32, 134, 148, 150, 154, 156–58, 160, 164 subjective principles, 68 time/temporality, xxxi, 10–16, 18, 20–22, 28, 30, 32–35, 48, 58–59, 64, 111, 150 trace, 15, 33, 35, 59–61, 67, 70–71, 73, 154 transcendental/transcendental regime, 9–10, 15, 24–28, 31, 36, 38, 48, 51, 60, 63, 65, 71–73, 77, 138, 157, 174– 77, 186, 189 universal/universality, 22 unnameable, 176 void, 26, 29, 62, 71 weak singularity, 8–9, 24, 27 Badiou’s texts: Being and Event, xviii, xxx, 6, 8, 11, 14–16, 21, 23–25, 27, 33–35, 38–39, 47–48, 51, 58–62, 71, 76, 112 “Beyond Formalisation,” 8, 24, 31 Briefings on Existence, 51 “Can Change Be Thought?,” 6, 11, 136 Circonstances 2, 13–14, 34 Circonstances 3, 21–22 Le concept de modèle, 121 “The Contemporary Figure of the Soldier in Politics and Poetry,” 78 De l’idéologie, 6, 29 Deleuze, 131 “Destruction, Negation, Subtraction,” 21 Ethics, 8, 23, 32, 60–61, 67–68, 72, 74 Handbook of Inaesthetics, 20, 47, 61, 70– 71, 73, 163 Logiques des mondes, xxviii, 8–11, 15– 16, 18, 21, 24–27, 33, 38, 44, 47–48, 51–52, 60, 62–66, 68–73, 75, 77, 156, 174, 177 Metapolitics, 7, 11, 39–41 illegality, 27, 76, 149 immortality, 68, 78, 156–57...