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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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