... Badiou communist theory Hume Meillassoux Occupy Movement philosophy of the subject political theory revolution Truth exists only in a process of scission. — Alain Badiou, Théorie de la contradiction If Alain Badiou’s Being and Event sought to move beyond...

... framework, I show that Althusser’s references to the whole compromise his emphasis on the immanence of historical causality. I reconstruct an approach to the relation between immanence and lack through Théorie Communiste’s “theory of rift.” In the process, I engage with Jacques Rancière and Paul Mattick...