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.
ALAIN BADIOU- 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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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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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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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’.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUThere 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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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.
ALAIN BADIOUArt 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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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