We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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To 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
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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