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 BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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’.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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