The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUTo 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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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