The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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