All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
ALAIN BADIOUArt 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.
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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