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.
ALAIN BADIOUIn love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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