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Sinopsis

"Learn to live as you exist, infinitely, contentless, openly, consistently, generically, and be happy."

In this short book Professor William Watkin reveals the startling truth that, based on revolutionary developments in mathematics and philosophy, we can now prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that all existence is infinite. He then demands that we, as human beings, start living in accordance with this truth.

Realising that almost all of our intellectual history has been based on the impossibility of the truth that being and existence is infinite, and accepting that infinity has always been rather intimidating and hard to access concept, Prof. Watkin presents 25 simple rules for how to live an authentic, infinite existence, starting today. Written in short, clear, jargon-free sentences that are accessible to anyone, the aim of these rules is to make infinite existence available as a form of day to day living to anyone who wishes to exist and live that way: infinitely, contentless, consistently, generically, and most of all, happily.

While, naturally, Prof. Watkin hopes this book will change your mind about infinity and philosophy, his main task is to change your life, by showing you how to live, authentically, an infinite existence. In particular, he wonders how we, as human beings, can live authentic lives knowing we are infinite beings. While it is natural to first ask yourself how you can change your life so as to live it infinitely, Watkin's ambitions go much further. The book goes on to ask questions such as: what are the responsibilities of being infinite, what does it suggest about our identities and differences, what are you willing to give up, to access this incredible prize?

Casting his net further, Watkin also ponders on the ethics and politics of infinite beings, the way infinite existence seems to sap power systems of their dominance, what an infinite aesthetics, an infinite architecture, an infinite poetry, and art would look like. Finally, capitalising on his remarkable reputation as a reader of contemporary continental philosophy and theory, and his now decade-long project on the philosophy of indifference, Watkin asks what is our global future as beings on this earth, if we embrace one single truth, that our being is both infinite and indifferent? What are the rights of infinite beings, all beings, nut just human ones. What is the nonrelation of plastics and fish?

"You were born infinite, you are infinite, I suspect you always sensed you were infinite. Isn’t it time you started to live that way?"

William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature at Brunel University, West London. Infinite Existence is his eighth book. He is regarded, globally, as perhaps the premier reader of contemporary, continental philosophy with ground-breaking studies of the work of Giorgio Agamben, Agamben and Indifference, and Alain Badiou, Badiou and Indifferent Being. He is also known for his interventions on biopolitics and technology, for instance in his previous book, Bioviolence: How the powers that be make us do what they want. Watkin's next book, Herd Immunities: The Philosophy of Covid will be published in 2025. He tries to live infinitely in rural Oxfordshire, and sometimes succeeds.

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