Alain Badiou teaches at the cole Normale Sup rieure and at the Coll ge International de Philosophie inParis, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004).