All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOULove 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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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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