We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUIn my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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