'Powerless to separate from the clouds': Badiou, mathematics and geography.
Alain Badiou's work provides an important opportunity for critical human geographers to enhance our grasp of a range of abstract mathematical concepts while clarifying that toward which we must remain critical. Yet the geographical encounter with Badiou thus far has been needlessly hampered by, and...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 138; no. 1/2; pp. 130 - 159 |
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