These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOUI would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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 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.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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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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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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