Constructing the Inexistent

Commentary on Alain Badiou and the Imperative of Art                                    Scott Henstrand               

 

 

I.                   Father died one day.  Or perhaps another. 

 

II.                Alain Badiou spoke another day, not today.

 

III.             A necessary but unfortunate digression

 

IV.              Written at one time or another; or is it one Place or another?

 

V.                 What if there were no artifacts?

 

VI.              The Reading- “Arts Imperative- Speaking the Unspeakable”

 

VII.           I believe.  I want to believe.  

 

VIII.        Father is outside the question.

 

IX.              The intentional: From the Indefinite to the Inexistent

 

X.                 Awareness of the Inexistent.

 

XI.              The Imperative of Art.

 

XII.           Continuous and discontinuous functions.

 

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