It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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