The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOUIf 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 BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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 BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUTo believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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