Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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