Universal Singularity

"Since the paulinian universal appears in the shape of generic sets, the church of a truth must “be” a generic “set”. The sense of being (the sense of the verb to be) becomes: being-multiple. Not only for truth-churches (those beings which save), but for every being: each and every being relates back to one (or many?) multiple-forms, at the same time as set theory articulates everything that one can say about the pure multiple as being-qua-being. Badiou’s formula according to which “mathematics is ontology” cannot, from the very start, say anything other. It finds its necessity in the meeting of the two Pauls, of the catholic and the generic, as a complex thinking of an existential and mathematical “universal singularity”."

Translation of Maquerelle du Vrai, 13 June 2005 - Text by Guillaume Destivère
[Cited from Irrational Numbers]