"All their many differences aside, one of the most intriguing messages of both Alain Badiou’s and Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy is that, although we live in a world in which our course is fundamentally determined by our biological constitution and social arrangements, it can nevertheless occasionally happen that we are given the chance to perform an act of genuine freedom; an act, to paraphrase Badiou, in which what we do might exceed what we are."
