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.
ALAIN BADIOUThere is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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