Badiou

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“Ontology announces herein neither One, nor All, nor Atom; solely the uniform axiomatic count-as-one of multiples.” —Being and Event

“…for the void to become localizable at the level of presentation, and thus for a certain type of intra-situational assumption of being qua being to occur, a dysfunction of the count is required, which results from an excess-of-one.” —Being and Event

“In the body of the text the reading of the formulas should not pose any problems, moreover, they will always be introduced. Definitions will be explained. The reader can trust the intuitive sense of the written forms.” —Being and Event

“counter-state” —Being and Event

“I will say that being qua being does not in any manner let itself be approached, but solely allows itself to be sutured in its void to the brutality of a deductive consistency without aura.”

“Last but not least, the truths of love relate to the dialectical power contained in the experiencing of the world not from the point of view of the One, of individual singularity, but from the point of view of the Two, and hence with a radical acceptance of the other person.”

“…and then with one bitchy remark, Badiou ruined the show, he just asked her, okay where is your betrayal of Derrida?” Slavoj Žižek anecdote about Avital Ronell and Alain Badiou

“The idea is to constitute the void as the 'first' level of being and to pass to the following level by 'extracting' from the previous level all the constructible parts; that is, all those definable by an explicit property of the language on the previous level.” —Being and Event

“This is usually clouded by the fact that in art what is at stake is the sensible and the variance of its forms, while in science it is the intelligibility of the world and the invariance of its equations.” —Logics of Worlds

“What must be established is a sufficient and independent existence of the good as a work of truth so that evil, as a waste product, is forced, in its futile attack on the good, to become divided and to break down.” —The Immanence of Truths

“Yes, before speculating on the question of whether a given action or thought is viable in the real world, it is always necessary to clarify what it is, in this real world, that we wish to transform.”

There’s a short interview with Badiou included in this.

“By consequence, as political programme, the Marxist proposes the revolutionary suppression of the State; thus the end of representation and the universality of simple presentation.” —Being and Event

Alain Badiou circa 1975 organizing migrant tenants from A Political Life 1937-1985

“Politics thinks, barbarism does not, ergo no politics can be barbarous. The sole aim of this syllogism is to hide the otherwise evident barbarity of the capitalist parliamentarianism which presides over our current fate.” -The Century

“'Our societies' simply designates, in a thoughtlessly obscene way, the wholly relative well-being of some of the wealthiest (minority) groups on the planet, which hardly makes for an acceptable opposition to the supposed substance of terrorism.” —Polemics

“Why is the politics of walls, persecutions, controls and expulsions a disaster? Why does it create a very dangerous mood tending toward fascism?” True Communism Is the Foreignness of Tomorrow: Alain Badiou talks in A | Verso Books versobooks.com/blogs/news/154…