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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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 without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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