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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Alain Badiou

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOU

Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
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
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contact Love Narcissist Two
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 BADIOU

Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOU

Communism Hypothesis Know Right
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOU

Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOU

Change Democracy Improve Ironical Necessary Order People Propose
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOU

Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

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