Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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