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Who is "Bad Badiou"? (with Andrew Culp [author of 'Dark Deleuze'] and Alexander Galloway)

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The Problems With Set Theory

D.NG: What is set theory? Where does it come from in Kent? What are the problems that it's trying to address and why it might be appealing to someone like Badgyu? I guess it's assumed that, you know, I'm not a historian to math nor am I a mathematician. But my understanding is that people more or less take for granted for a very long time that a number is a number. And so he's like, oh, man, there's actually an infinite amount of space between even just two counting numbers,. He has nothing nice to say about democracy because he says all those people are interested in running the numbers.

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