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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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.
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