It must on the contrary be named.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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