ABSTRACT
Alain Badiou explains that the subject of the play is what is at stake in the expression ‘images of the present age’. ‘In fact, Genet’s text asks explicitly what becomes of images when the present is disorder’. Badiou explains, ‘both Plato and Lenin are more interested in the subjective impact of this State form than they are in its objective status. Badiou further explains that, in spite of Plato’s ‘aristocratic reactionism’, his critique of democracy holds an independent, even a ‘bivalent force’. “Democracy” names the political figure of the conjunction between particular situations and a politics. The only dangerous and radical critique is the political critique of democracy, because the emblem of the present age, its fetish, its phallus, is democracy’.
