
The True Life

Does this mean that State initiation is over? They’re trying to make us believe that school has become the peaceful institution of public initiation.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
But there is a radical change in its role, because it is an initiation not into childbearing for women or war for men but into the inertia of eternal adolescence.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
either the passion for burning up your life or the passion for building it.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Men and women will share in a new universal symbolization of birth and all its consequences.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
It was he who said, in modern terms and with a new meaning, “Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Alain Badiou • The True Life
A true house is something you can return to when the adventure of thought and action has made you leave it and almost forget about it.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
other: Western capitalism’s a-symbolic vision, which produces monstrous inequalities and pathogenic disorientation, and the vision commonly known as “communism,” which, ever since the time of Marx and his contemporaries, has been proposing the creation of an egalitarian symbolization.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
The most important societal imperative is to ensure that all real individuality is dependent on the circulation of commodities.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
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