It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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