The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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