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is not ideology, rather it decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.

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. Alain Badiou

Art attests to what is inhuman in man. Alain Badiou

's pleasure is the pleasure of a new perceptual intensity.

Badiou's approach to art locates the possibility and the site of the new in an artistic world, where the affect of art is the 'pleasure of a new perceptual intensity'. (Badiou 2009: 76) ' Philosophico-Musical Vision: Badiou, i ek,and Music. James Little

is multiplicity and nothing but multiplicity. It is a multiplicity composed of multiplicities.

Ontology, for our time, is thus identified with set theory, in the sense that this theory reveals to us that any mathematical entity can be thought of as a multiple. To be, in the most general and fundamental sense, is to be a set, and therefore a multiplicity. Hence Badiou's ontological thesis: being is multiplicity and, we should add: nothing but multiplicity. In other words, being is multiple to the strict exclusion of its opposite namely, the One. Being is not therefore a multiplicity composed of stable and ultimate unities, but a multiplicity that is in turn composed of multiplicities. Indeed, mathematical sets have for their elements not unities but other sets, and so on indefinitely. When a set is not empty, it is composed of multiple sets. '

is not at all the good of humanity. Quite the contrary... it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary... it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. Alain Badiou

is a place of intrinsic indiscernability between art and non-art.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernability between art and non-art. Alain Badiou

is all political truth (not just to a subset of political events) because all political truths, insofar as they count as 'truths' are necessarily universalizing, equalitarian, and emancipatory.

Badiou communism does not refer to one subset of political events, but to political events in general. All political truths are communist becasue all political truths are universalizing and equalitarian (OR 16). In so far as I) only a politics with an Idea (or a politics of truths) deserves to be called a real poitiics, II) the idea of communism is the ground of every emancipatroy orientation, and III) political truths for Badiou are always emancipatory in that they break down hierarchies and declare a universal subject, communism is the only Idea with which to confront the 'Get rich!' mantra of capital-parlemantariansim (Watkin 2011). https://goo.gl/9eN3G0'For Badiou, communism is the Real of politics but in the structure of a historical fiction: thus, if history is the Symbolic Order communism is that which reveals

is a pleasure like the pleasure of good dancing.

The pleasure of courtesy is like the pleasure of good dancing

is the wrongheaded notion that nothing exists but bodies and language. It is misguided because "truth" is also something that exists.

Badiou presents his philosophical project as a polemics with what he calls 'democratic materialism', namely the conviction that there are only bodies and language (Badiou 2006b). Badiou's self-styled 'materialist dialectics' undermines this by adding the conviction that 'there are truths'. The third element, truth, is part of a philosophical triad that condenses the thought of novelty in Badiou's philosophy: event, truth and the subject. None of these elements is given, they are the result of a process that brings about change and breaks with the status quo.'

is a break that is immanent to the thinking of a situation. It is that which brings to pass something other than the situation.

In comparison, Badiou is concerned with encounters that disrupt ontology, that interrupt or suspend the activities of naming and counting within a situation. In fact, Badiou states that the event is always a breaking of the count (Badiou, 2001: 134-5). For Badiou then, the event is a break that is immanent to the thinking of a situation.'

is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. Alain Badiou

is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the good that compels me.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Alain Badiou

is the notion that 'he' is no longer the living being who can be encountered when existence breaks the ice of its own transparency.

God is dead means that He is no longer the living beign who can be encountered when existence breaks the ice of its own transparency. That so and so declares to the press that He was encountered under a tree, or in a provincial chapel, changes nothing. For we know that from such an encounter no thought can use its rights to advantage any longer, let alone do we grant someone claiming to see specters more than the positive consideration of a symptomatic manifestation.

is, for the presocratics, to be differentiated while for plato difference is to be identified.

We could say that the Pre-Socratics differentiate identity, while Plato identifies difference. This is perhaps the source of Lacan's preference for Heraclitus. (Badiou 'lacan and the pre-socratics pdf)

is that genre in which philosophy finds completely new forms of the destiny of the human subject.

Why there is a close relationship between poetry and philosophy, or more generally between literature and philosophy' It's because philosophy finds in literature some examples of completely new forms of the destiny of the human subject. And precisely new forms of the concrete becoming of the human subject when this subject is confronted to its proper truth.(Badiou 2008 On beckett : pdf)

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.

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. Alain Badiou

is an impossibility without risk, like war without death.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Alain Badiou

is the decision to create a new open set, to knot two interiorities into a new logic of world, a new neighborhood.

For Badiou, love is the decision to create a new open set, to knot two interiorities into a new logic of world, a new neighborhood

is the minimal form of communism. Because love is enthusiasm with two people and politics is enthusiasm with a collective.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective... with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism. Alain Badiou

is, together with politics, one of the two great figures of social engagement. Love is enthusiasm with two people... politics is enthusiasm with a collective... as such, love is the minimal form of communism.

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