Guided by the coverage of 20th century events, ethics, and art found in Alain Badiou's Century, this issue of Double Dialogues opens up debates on art and philosophy in the twenty-first century.
Badiou saw the last hundred years as evincing a 'passion for the real', but in acknowledging its terror, horror and genocides he nevertheless asks his readers to acknowledge also its 'emancipatory politics'.
This issue explores response to this plea, and works to examine both the extent to which it can be applied to the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the extent to which the analyses of 'events' in the twentieth century can be re-thought from our current perspective.