Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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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.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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