Alain Badiou on assumption
“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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Without mathematics, we are blind.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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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