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.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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