The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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