Adjust Your Dread: Badiou’s Metaphysical Disposition

What is the problem of which metaphysics is the inquiry? Passing by Heidegger’s imagistic allusions to soil, extrapolated from Descartes’s letter to Picot outlining the arborescence of philosophy (a metaphor Deleuze turned on its side),¹ perhaps it was the great rival to Heraclitus, Parmenides,² who, eschewing organic metaphor altogether, truly expressed it best: the same is to think as to be.³ The gap, indistinction, or indiscernibility between “thought” or thinking and “what is,” by no means necessarily a “separation” to be resolved, is what metaphysics names, and it goes without saying that working out the places and operations implies and