I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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