The Concept of Model Quotes

“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

“We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.”
― Alain Badiou, The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics