Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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 BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUThere is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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.
ALAIN BADIOUFor 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.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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