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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.

Alain Badiou

We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOU

Deserve Riot We
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
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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Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
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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Abandon Capitalism Character Economy Hypothesis Immediate Inevitable Market Monstrous Inequalities Natural Parliamentary Resign State
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communication Complete Ethics Opposite Truth
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
Without mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOU

Blind Mathematics

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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