Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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