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"Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's Being and Event, Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. As a complex theory of worlds, the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood. Yet, through William Watkin's diligent and critical close--reading, he guides the reader through the Badiouan text, whilst demonstrating how Logics of Worlds is the essential book for anyone interested in existence, meaning and the potential for radical change"--

"Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. Covid, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump. Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually end up committing acts coercion or disregard against the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked with making us live, find themselves letting us die, then they are practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion, surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news, terrorism and war. As it does so it demonstrates that the very term 'violence' is a discursive construct, an effect of language, made real by our behaviours, embodied by our institutions, and dissemination by our technologies. In short, bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want"--

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The consistency of inconsistency -- Subtractive being -- Nonrelationality -- Indifference -- Set theory -- Retroactive axiomatic reasoning -- Transmissibility, intelligibility and communicability -- Theory of the subject -- Part One Indifferent Being -- 1 Being: The One and the Multiple -- How to make intelligible the impossible proposition one is-not (Meditation One) -- The one as operational count-as-one -- The ancient problem of classes -- Situations and structures -- The multiple -- Presentation of presentation -- Reasoning on being by means of axioms -- 2 Being: Separation, Void, Mark -- Meditation Two -- Set theory and aggregation as collection (Meditation Three) -- Axiom of separation -- Notation and self-predication -- The pure multiple is real -- The void: proper name of being (Meditation Four) -- The void and nothing -- Void as nomination -- ZF+C: the nine axioms of contemporary set theory (Meditation Five) -- Axiom of extensionality -- Axiom of replacement or substitution -- The void set and in- diff erence -- Conclusion: pure multiple and the void -- 3 Being and Excess -- Powerset axiom (Meditation Seven) -- Point of excess -- Void as name -- Four kinds of one-ness: one, count-as-one, unicity, forming-into-one 8 -- The state (Meditation Eight) -- Threat of the void -- Belonging, inclusion and parts -- Typologies of being -- States and indifference (Meditation Nine) -- 4 Nature and Infinity -- Nature is normal (Meditation Eleven) -- Transitive sets: cardinal and ordinal (Meditation Twelve) -- Nature and minimality -- Nature and intrication -- The inexistence of nature -- Potential and actual infinity -- Proving the actual infinite -- Doubling and Dedekind infinites -- The limit -- Succession and limit -- The upper or maximal limit

Exoteric dossier : the literary Agamben -- Projection : there is language -- Logos, thinking thought -- Poiesis, thinking through making -- Modernity, productive anti-poiesis -- Logopoiesis, thinking tautology -- Enjambement, the turn of verse -- Caesura, the space of thought.

The starting point of this essay is the internal difference in the concept of power, the issue of authority and its relation to the act. The authority operates as both the assumed perfect coincidence of act and law, and as the pure externality of authority to law. This complex structure is the real essence of power in the West, government, whose main signature, The Kingdom and the Glory will go on to argue, has been that of oikonomia or economy. Finally, the paper will examine the notion of inoperativity, concept that reveals the total structure of the system. What we can say however is that until the signatures of power are themselves revealed in their inoperativity, the oft promised key to the totality of the Homo Sacer project, remains unintelligible. It is for this reason that The Kingdom and the Glory may come to be seen not only as one of Agamben's most important statements, but as the fundamental work of political philosophy of our age. ; El punto de partida de este ensayo es la diferencia interna en el concepto de poder, la problemática de la autoridad y su relación con el acto. La autoridad opera a la vez como la coincidencia perfecta supuesto de acto y ley, y como la pura externalidad de autoridad a la ley. Esta compleja es la esencia real del poder en occidente, el gobierno, cuya signatura ha sido la economía, como El reino y la Gloria defenderá. Finalmente, el ensayo examinará la noción de inoperatividad, concepto que revela la estructura total del sistema. Podemos decir que hasta que las signaturas de poder son ellas mismas reveladas en su inoperatividad, la prometida clave de totalidad del proyecto de Homo sacer permanece indistinguible. Por eso el Reino y la Gloria no sólo es uno de los libros más importantes de Agamben, sino la obra fundamental de la filosofía política de nuestro tiempo.