We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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In 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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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