We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUIn fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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To 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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Art 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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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