Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUIf you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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