I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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