We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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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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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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