Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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.
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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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