Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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 BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOULove can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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 BADIOUIt 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.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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