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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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