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.
ALAIN BADIOUTo believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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