We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory 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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It must on the contrary be named.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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