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 BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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