Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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.
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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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 aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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