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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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