The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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