Quotes by Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou

A 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.

Development

Humanity

Order

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Oneself

Resistance

Rupture

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. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

Art

Real

Reflection

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Impossible

Seems

Situation

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

Discipline

Party

Political

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.

Limits

Narcissistic

Want

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’.

Philosopher

Philosophy

Views

In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Democracy

Order

People

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

Grants

Silent

Speak

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.

Causes

Examination

Political

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Assumption

Believe

Blind

Car

Causes

Communication

Democracy

Development

Discipline

Examination

Grants

Humanity

Impossible

Kind

Limits

Mathematics

Men

Narcissistic

Oneself

Opposites

Order

Paradise

Party

People

Philosopher

Philosophy

Political

Productions

Real

Reflection

Resistance

Rupture

Seems

Serenity

Silent

Situation

Speak

Two

Views

Want

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Quotes by Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou

A 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.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

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.

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’.

In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

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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