"Theatre number event: three studies on the relationship between sovereignty, power and truth"

Theatre Number Event: Three Studies on the Relationship between Sovereignty, Power and Truth is a book at the crossroads of Continental Philosophy, European History and Cultural Studies. It offers a new set of formalizations of the relation(s) between sovereignty, power and truth. To do this it invents three conceptual fictions- theatre, number and event. Theatre stands for the physical assembly wherein sovereign exercise of power and the performative transformation of a multitude into a congregational subject of sovereignty are articulated together. Number is an index of multiplicity which differentiates countable sets of people from swarms that populate history while escaping the measure of count-as-one. Event raises the stakes of these formalizations by asking the following question: is it possible to think beyond the axiomatic, immemorial truth of sovereignty, to think of new and contingent truths, of new immemorials?