Alain Badiou
b. 1937
“Being and Event — truth procedures issuing from singular fidelity.”
The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.
- SRSkeptical Reflex8 / 10
- TDTheoretical Drive8 / 10
- TVTragic Vision7 / 10
- WPWill to Power7 / 10
The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.
- Étienne BalibarFORGE
Citizen subject — equality and liberty as inseparable political invention.
- Bernard StieglerFORGE
Technics and time — exteriorization of memory shapes the human.
- Steve BikoPILGRIM
Black Consciousness — psychological liberation precedes political freedom.
- Jacques RancièreFORGE
The distribution of the sensible — politics as redistribution of who counts.
- Achille MbembePILGRIM
Necropolitics. The colonial enterprise as the production of death. Becoming Black of the world.
- Aspasia of MiletusFORGE
Rhetorician of Pericles' Athens; teacher of Socrates by report.
Short exercises in the same tradition as Alain Badiou's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.
Three doors lead onward.
- 01 · QUIZThe InheritorFind your archetype — discover whether you'd argue with Alain Badiou or alongside them.CONTINUE ▶
- 02 · COMPAREAlain Badiou vs Étienne BalibarOn Mull's map Étienne Balibar sits closest. See where they agree and where they part.CONTINUE ▶
- 03 · DAILYToday's SparOne philosopher, one topic, five minutes. A new one drops every day.CONTINUE ▶