The volume probes the relationship between sovereignty, power and truth. Offering a new set of formalisations to explore the relationship between the three facets, it invents the three fictions, namely theatre, number and event. It argues that ‘theatre’ can be seen as the physical assembly wherein sovereign exercise of power and the performative transformation of a multitude into a congregational subject of sovereignty are articulated together. By ‘number’ is meant an index of multiplicity which differentiates countable sets of people from swarms that populate history. ‘Event’ raises the question of whether it is possible to think beyond the axiomatic, immemorial truth of sovereignty, that is, whether it is possible to think of some new and contingent truths, to think of new immemorials.
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