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 BADIOUWhat 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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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