Article 3 - His so-called VOID means nothing!

Badiou's so-called "Void" is hardly anything at all.

I guess it stand in for Nothing but since Nothing isn't this is not high praise.

It stands in for Not-present, for all the what-could-have-beens that aren't, for the unspecified nature of that particular "lack" which designates what, speficially -- not generally, Isn't.

He might as well have called it nothing else.

He might as well have called it Something Else -- it amounts to the same thing. All his initial blithering to save the IS from the NOT by defining it as precisely-only an IS-NOT... well let's just say this gives way pretty quickly to some wild musings about the role of his so-called Void in the shaping of history and individual subjectivity.

Sounds a heck of a lot like Kierkegaard's God.

A Something Else that cowards call Nothing Else.

Alain Baidou is a douchebag.