Throughout the book Hewlett emphasizes how all three thinkers see
intervention in the world as being the only way of understanding
it. . . . Thus they do not want to understand a reality given in
advance but to account for the emergence of realities. This creates a
tension in his reading of these three thinkers. On the one hand he
sees them as accounting for understanding through intervention. On the
other hand he takes for granted a common understanding of something he
sums up as 'real life' or 'the real world'. . . . Badiou, Balibar and
Ranciere question any common understanding of a 'real world' because
to understand is to intervene. Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4280

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