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The Field of Numbers Depends on the Infinity

Lacan often says the real is the impossible. Equality, and under capitalism is this point of impossibility. I don't think it can never be fully. So that would be an example. Another one was Alon Bajou who talks about the infinity. It's a number that is beyond graspability, but it's not a number, it's a symbol. And it like mathematics depends upon it. This the field of numbers, this is Bajou's phrase.

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