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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
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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Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
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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Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
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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False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
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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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
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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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
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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Burden Change Declare Destiny Horrify Love Mark Perilous Stage Transform
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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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
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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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth

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