i'm surprised - i finally found an example of zizek saying something of substance, and it turns out i even agree with him, and for the right reasons.

badiou's preposterous attempt to seek absolute truth through the use of set theory is indeed a hare-brained exercise in bankrupt kantian idealism. for, as kant was rambling away about the perfection of geometry, gauss (at least according to the popular mythology, it was gauss) was demonstrating it's arbitrary nature. badiou seems to have missed the memo.

what's missing in this presentation is a discussion of hilbert and russell and why the deductions of mathematics are only as valuable as the axioms underlying them. so, first badiou must prove his axioms. cue godel...

badiou actually has the gall to talk of deciding the undecidable. it's reckless absurdity, and can only be met seriously with a laugh.

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