In the opening essay of Conditions (C), “The (Re)Turn of Philosophy Itself,” French philosopher Alain Badiou claims that today we labor under a post-metaphysical “paralysis” of philosophy for which it appears that “history has entered the— perhaps interminable—era of its closure.” (3) This paralysis and concomitant “malaise” of philosophy arose, according to Badiou, as a consequence of the relocation of the center of philosophy: “it no longer knows if it has a proper place.” (3) Philosophy today either “strives to graft itself” onto other established praxes, such as, art, politics, science or love; or tout court philosophy has become “a museum of itself,” relegated to the analysis of its own history, but never with the same intellectual force that stimulated philosophy’s grand metaphysical past. […]