let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
ALAIN BADIOUA Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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