Bodies will have to pay for their excesses of language.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

A language that claims to regulate all the others, to rule all bodies, will be called dictatorial and totalitarian.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

Mortal Bodies.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

In order to validate the equation existence = individual = body, contemporary doxa must courageously absorb humanity into a position vision of animality.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

Negri is right concerning what the postmoderns ‘know’: the body is the only concrete instance for desolate individuals aspiring to enjoyment.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

The great majority of artists, today, choreographers, painters, videomakers, try to expose the secret of bodies, of the desiring and machinic lives of bodies. It is the global trend of arts which proposes us a body art… They all impose upon the visible the hard relationship of bodies to the great and indifferent noise of the universe.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

In the contemporary world, the individual recognizes the objective existence of bodies alone, and, first of all, of his or her own body.

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”

Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

…”In the pragmatics of desires, in the evidence of the domination of trade and business, in the formal law of sale and purchase, the individual is convinced of, and formatted by, the dogma of our finitude, of our exposition to enjoyment, suffering and death.”

There are only bodies and languages.*

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“Bodies, Languages Truths”

Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

*Take this statement with a grain of salt. Badiou isn’t stating this as an absolute; he is answering his own question:

“What is the dominant ideology today?” He then states, “There is the free market, the technology, the money, the job, the blog, the reelections, the free sexuality, and so one. But I think all that can be concentrated in a single statement.” (And then he says: “There are only bodies and languages.”)

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