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 BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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.
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