I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We have the riots we deserve.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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