Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUArt 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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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