Evental site

If. is the event site i is occupied and is site j is occupied, then clearly... 

We see from Eq. (1.1.5) that for any m> and 1 < n < m, the correlation between the two events site i is occupied and site j is occupied is negative, i.e., g < 1. Recall that we have assumed that all of the ( ) configurations have equal probabilities. This is usually the case when there are no interactions between the ligands occupying different sites. 

Note that whenever we sum over all possible states of one variable, we eliminate the notation of that variable from the resulting probability. In Eq. (1.5.3), we refer to P(0,0) as the probability of the event site a and site b are empty. This is obtained by summing over all possible states (here, L and H) of the empty system. 

Note that this is slightly different from the conditional probability of finding sites a and b occupied and c empty, given that b is occupied and c is empty. Here, the denominator is the probability of the event (0, b, 0) and not the event site b is occupied. ... 

A blank space in the argument of P means unspecified or anything. Thus, P(a, ) [or simply P(a)] is the probability of the event site a is occupied. The state of site b is unspecified and could be anything, empty or occupied. 

In the context of this book the term correlation as defined in Eq. (4.2.8) applies for any two events. For instance, the correlation between the events site a is empty and site b is empty is... 

The same applies for the two events site a is occupied and site b is occupied, for which the correlation is... 

Whenever g(a, I>) = 1, we say that there is no correlation between the events site a is occupied and site b is occupied, and hence the system is noncooperative. If g a, b)> 1, we say that the two ligands cooperate positively, and when g a, b)<, they cooperate negatively. ... 

Whenever a(a, ) 1, one says that the two events site a occupied and site b... 

The description of the two-state system,/= 2, was introduced earlier in Sections 7.1 and 7.2. Here, we present some quite obvious results for systems with nn direct interactions only. Since we discuss only a restricted group of events, we use a simpler notation for the correlations. Thus, instead of g(sj = a,S2 = P), we simply use g 2) or gi2(2) to denote pair correlations (between the event site i occupied and site i + 1 occupied ). Also, we shall always refer to the X. 0 limit as the correlation and omit specific notation for this limit. 

Indication Adverse event Site of manipulation Therapist Causality Reference... 

The concept of the evental site as sketched in Part IV, Medita-... 

I will term evental site an entirely abnormal multiple that is, a multiple such that none of its elements are presented in the situation. The site, itself, is presented, but beneath it nothing from which it is composed is presented. As such, the site is not a part of the situation. I will also say of such a multiple that it is on the edge of the void, or foundational ... 

Explaining this turn of phrase invoking the void —in Badiou s system, evental sites are composed of a combination of singular terms (i.e., entities that are presented in a situation but not represented in this situation s state, these terms being on the edge of the void ) and void (non-) terms (i.e., entities that are neither presented nor represented, being the void framed by singular terms) —he continues ... 

It becomes clearer why an evental site can be said to be on the edge of the void when we remember that from the perspective of the situation this multiple is made up exclusively of non-presented multiples. Just beneath this multiple—if we consider the multiples from which it is composed—there is nothing, because none of its terms are themselves counted-as-one, A site is therefore the minimal effect of structure which can be conceived it is such that it belongs to the situation, whilst what belongs to it in turn does not. The border effect in which this multiple touches upon the void originates in its consistency (its one-multiple) being composed solely from what, with respect to the situation, in-consists. Within the situation, this multiple is, but that of which it is the multiple is not. ... 

There is thus a potential tension between truth as a fidelity to inconsistency and Truth as enforcing a project upon being that is to say, the key dilemma is is it enough to define an Event as the intrusion of inconsistency into a consistent situation, as the return of its repressed in the guise of a symptomal torsion, of an excessive element which formally belongs to a situation but lacks a proper place in it (Ranciere s part of no-part ) Is it not that such points of symptomal torsion are not yet Events themselves but only what Badiou calls evental sites, possible places where an Event can occur ... 

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