There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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There 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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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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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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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