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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.

Alain Badiou

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOU

Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
ALAIN BADIOU

Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
ALAIN BADIOU

Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
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 BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
ALAIN BADIOU

Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU

Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right

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