Alain Badiou is a world-renowned French philosopher, formerly chair of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and founder of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has authored multiple major works of philosophy, many of which have been published in English by Bloomsbury, including Being and Event (2005), Logics of Worlds (2009), and The Immanence of Truths (forthcoming, 2021).

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the Antipodal region and the work he presented there.
With new material by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the European context make this text essential reading for anyone interested in the development and contemporary reception of Badiou's thought.

1. Badiou in the Antipodes A. J Bartlett & Justin Clemens (Monash & University of Melbourne)

Part I. Badiou's Lectures
2.Considerations on the world situation
3.Cinema & Philosophy
4.À la recherche du réel perdu: In search of the lost Real
5. Philosophy/Theatre/Philosophy

Part II Interventions
6. Badiou's Concept of History, Knox Peden (Australian National University)
7. An Inessential Art? Positioning Cinema in Alain Badiou's Philosophy, Alex Ling (University of Western Sydney)
8. "Woman"'s Adventures With/in the Universal, Louise Burchill (University of Melbourne)
9. Maths in the Bedroom: Sex, the Signifier and the Smallest Whole Number, Sigi Jotkandt (University of New South Wales)
10. To Suture or Not to Suture: Poetry and Philosophy in the Thought of Alain Badiou, Ali Alizadeh (Monash University)
11. Deleuze's Badiou, Jon Roffe (University of New South Wales)

Part III Essays (titles to be announced)
12. Campbell Jones (Auckland University)
13. Christian Gelder (University of New South Wales)
14. Robert Boncardo (University Of Sydney)
15. Jai Bentley-Payne (Auckland University)
16. Lia Hills (Monash University)

Part IV
Alain Badiou Interviews
17. Contemporary Contradictions
18. Badiou: a Survey