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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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