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It must on the contrary be named.

Alain Badiou

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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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  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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  In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

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  In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.

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  Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

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  Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.

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  The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  We have the riots we deserve.

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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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  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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  There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

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