The Fate of Number

for Alain Badiou

BEACUSE THE SOUL AND BODY
OF THE IMAGINATION
ARE BEYOND ECONOMY
LEGALITY AS MEANS
MORALITY AS ENDS
SO MUCH DO THEY LOVE
THEIR MEANS WITHOUT QUALIFICATION
THEREFORE PASIONATELY

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So the mind
must make
one
and can't make one.

So we must
love
each other
and love the abstract.

So this is a notion
of what subjects are
together, intersubjective
ground of love.

So there must always be
love for the mind.

So the mind is
what we love,
powers of mind.

So the eyes are the first sign
we see
of the mind, the eyes
and their cancellations,
their voiding.

So there are words.

There is perhaps a one that is not one.
The mind is such a one.
The mind as imaginal, a soul as such.
That thing most capable of love, these things.
The heart, the mind, the breath.
The heart's hallucination.
It's subtlest images, in the mind.
Of the mind...

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A LIMIT INSCRIBED IN PLATO
(A PLATONISM WITHOUT GUARANTEE)

Why can't one one be one one be?
Why can't one one and one one be two?
Why can't one and one and one be one?
One and one, perhaps only one?

There is no numericity
in the outside again,
none inside.

Just the movement of the all
and each.

Multiplicity
destroying number
in order that it may be saved...