Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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