World of Speculation
But as we know from Lacan and from before, the truth itself is in a structure of fiction. The process of truth is also the process of a new fiction. And so to find the new great fiction is the possibility to have a final belief, political belief. And in fact, when the world is dull and confusing, as it is today, we have to sustain our final belief by a magnificent fiction…
Alain Badiou, “Politics: A Non-Expressive Dialectics”, 11/26/05
I’m such a Badiou fanboy…
