“I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.”
Alain Badiou
The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics
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