We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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