The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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