We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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 without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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