What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
ALAIN BADIOUI 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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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