Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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