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Badiou's Ethics

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The nature of decision-making in the face of undecidable events

The concept of truth in the face of indifference from Capital leads to a need for a split in the situation. The first regime of evil brings up the question of who decides, highlighting the role of obscure subjects faithful to an event. With collectives as the subjects of truths, deliberative means have to be invented each time, as there is no general rule for deciding. The persistence of an event lies in its naming, which is undecidable, as a decidable event would be part of the current situation's knowledge and not a truth. The continuity of sense and truth in religious discourse relates to the concept of the split, signifying a break from received meaning and knowledge. The ethical standpoint involves wagering on what one will have only believed once, rather than on what one will have always believed.

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