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.
ALAIN BADIOUlet 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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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 feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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