Lacanian Ink 48

Alain Badiou's numerate "The Political..." to infinity, and ordain it in three groups: "that of the situation; that, indeterminate, of the state of the situation; that of the prescription, which interrupts indetermination and permits the State distance." What singularizes the prescription as political procedure is that it enables the autonomy of the State. Besides "Who needs you for terrorizing me? I can do it myself!" argues Slavoj Zizek when he summarizes the capitalist abstraction in "The Only Good Neighbour is a Dead Neighbour!"