In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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