Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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.
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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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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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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