
The True Life

Men and women will share in a new universal symbolization of birth and all its consequences.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
“Consume if you can afford to; otherwise shut up and get lost.”
Alain Badiou • The True Life
that Woman connotes a process more than a position.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
But what is the family? Already in Plato there were three major social functions: producing, reproducing, and defending.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Of course, the old world is far from being completely dead. Religion, family, marriage, motherhood, modesty, even virginity itself, are still on a solid footing in many places around the world. But what the philosopher cares about is less what is than what is to come.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
That subject is given back to him by the shattering.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
There are some women who are laboring oxen and some who are Persian cats. There are even some – many of them – who try to be both at once.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
After all, what capitalism requires is a life consisting of work, needs, and satisfactions. An animal life, in short.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Here’s what I think about this in a nutshell: very strong pressure is being exerted on the figure of woman from two directions today. The first seeks to unify every woman. The second has to do with childbearing.