Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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