... if it is true that the factory structures the opposition between the constraints of capital and the social consciousness of labour, it does not follow that its active essence, its Marxist signification, can be resolved into these two terms. This is true only for the old Marxism and the workers’ movement that is dead today. If you want to write the prose of the factory, you must – except if you opt for the figure of repetition – begin from that which constitutes an immanent exception: the new forms, punctual and scattered, of political consciousness. It is even from there that repetition itself becomes readable. A. Badiou, _The Age of the Poets and Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose_
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