Archive of Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou gets to grips with the current political moment, and proposes that we are on the cusp of a new epoch: a new mass communism.

This open letter, signed among others by Virginie Despentes, Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Jean-François Bayart and Alexis Jenni, deplores the fact that the link between Western military interventions and terrorist attacks is never questioned.

In an interview Alain Badiou considers the possibilities of a politics outside the state and the problem of power

In this interviewed with the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou around the publication of his latest book Petrograd, Shanghaï (La Fabrique, 2018), he discusses the revolutionary legacy of the twentieth century and the future of Marxist theory.

The problem is not technology or nature. The problem is how to organise societies at a global scale.

"The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an unprecedented event in the history of the human species."