Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, and author. His books include Logics of Worlds; Being and Event; Theory of the Subject; The Century and a host of treatises and manifestos on aesthetics, Arab Spring, love, and, most recently, mathematics.

Emily Apter teaches in the departments of French and Comparative Literature at NYU. She co-edited a collection of Badiou's essays on literature with Bruno Bosteels (Verso, 2014), and is currently completing a book on "unexceptional politics."

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