Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOULove is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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