Membre correspondant

Since completing my doctorate at Cardiff University in 2003 I have been

writing about the concept of revolution, particularly in relation to

Marxist-Leninist debates on the State. The thrust of my argument, which is

presented in an essay due to appear this year in the collection Alain

Badiou : de l'ontologie à la politique (l'Harmattan), is that the

concept of State is no longer a counterpoint of revolutionary political

practice, and that a new concept of "revolution" can only emerge through the

"depersonification of the State", or "disfigurement of the Master". However,

this in turn raises questions about the topological and topographical

placement of revolution in any would-be ontology. I am currently preparing

material for a book on post-68 politics in between teaching post-war French

thought from Sartre to Badiou at London College of Communication. My English

translation of Badiou's Metapolitics is due to be published by Verso

in autumn 2005.