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.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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.
ALAIN BADIOUTo believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUI would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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