Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. 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.
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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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