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.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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