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 BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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