Michael Hauser is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Michael Hauser constructs a compelling theory of the present as the repetition of interregnum in an atonal world without Events. Hauser articulates an original interpretation of Badiou's thought, in which the concept of interregnum serves to interrogate both the Stalinist past and the contemporary neoliberal and postmodern order. Hauser argues that the post-1989 neoliberal order was fundamentally parasitic and prosthetic, grafting the egalitarian promises of socialism to better infiltrate decomposed, post-socialist societies. In the present, in contrast, this clarity has dissolved into a cacophonous conflation of social models, the forms of which circulate in a culture of immediate consumption without Idea. In this context, Hauser deploys the thought of Alain Badiou in a highly original configuration, to discern the limits of the present interregnum, as well as the emergent promise of an egalitarian, communist order to come.

• Preface Introduction : The Liberating Power of Generalization and the Prehistory of the Interregnum Part I: The Eccentric InterregnumFirst Section: The Epicyclic Period (1989-2000/2008)1. Neoliberalism With Traces of Communism2. Postmodernism, In Which Modernism is ExtinguishedConclusion of the First Section: The Epicyclic Character of the First Period of the InterregnumSecond Section: The Elliptical Period (2000/2008-present)Introduction: The Path to a Pure Interregnum1. Fractured Neoliberalism2. Contemporary Culture and Politics as Infinite Circulation Part 2: Badiou's Transitive OntologyIntroduction: The Philosophy of Truths as a Response to the Interregnum 1. Situating Badiou in the Interregnum2. The Philosophical Exodus from the Interregnum: Event, Truth, and the Subject as a Composition of Unity and Multiplicity 3. The Interregnum as the Age of the Absolute List of sources

Michael Hauser is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science, and an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Michael Hauser constructs a compelling theory of the present as the repetition of interregnum in an atonal world without Events. Hauser articulates an original interpretation of Badiou's thought, in which the concept of interregnum serves to interrogate both the Stalinist past and the contemporary neoliberal and postmodern order. Hauser argues that the post-1989 neoliberal order was fundamentally parasitic and prosthetic, grafting the egalitarian promises of socialism to better infiltrate decomposed, post-socialist societies. In the present, in contrast, this clarity has dissolved into a cacophonous conflation of social models, the forms of which circulate in a culture of immediate consumption without Idea. In this context, Hauser deploys the thought of Alain Badiou in a highly original configuration, to discern the limits of the present interregnum, as well as the emergent promise of an egalitarian, communist order to come.

• Preface Introduction : The Liberating Power of Generalization and the Prehistory of the Interregnum Part I: The Eccentric InterregnumFirst Section: The Epicyclic Period (1989-2000/2008)1. Neoliberalism With Traces of Communism2. Postmodernism, In Which Modernism is ExtinguishedConclusion of the First Section: The Epicyclic Character of the First Period of the InterregnumSecond Section: The Elliptical Period (2000/2008-present)Introduction: The Path to a Pure Interregnum1. Fractured Neoliberalism2. Contemporary Culture and Politics as Infinite Circulation Part 2: Badiou's Transitive OntologyIntroduction: The Philosophy of Truths as a Response to the Interregnum 1. Situating Badiou in the Interregnum2. The Philosophical Exodus from the Interregnum: Event, Truth, and the Subject as a Composition of Unity and Multiplicity 3. The Interregnum as the Age of the Absolute List of sources