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 BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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’.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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.
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