Interpreting Magnolia through Badiou’s Axiomatic Judgment: The Visitation of the Idea that Humanity is Love

Alain Badiou’s interpretation of Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Magnolia is a paradigmatic example of his peculiar procedure of cinematic analysis called axiomatic judgment. According to the axiomatic judgment, to read a film is to inquire into the effects it has on thought. This essay reconstructs Ba...

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Main Author: Lorenzo Gineprini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2023-01-01
Series:Itinera
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/19758