Finding the Real

I shall borrow a quote from one of my masters, Jacques Lacan, who — never one to beat around the bush — offered a direct definition of the real, a bit of a sly one, which is: the real is the dead-end of formalization. — Alain Badiou [*] The above citation is the opening paragraph of the second of three parts of a very short book the important contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou (born…