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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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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Change Democracy Improve Ironical Necessary Order People Propose
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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 is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
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.
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End Evolution Intrinsical Propagandistic Semantic Term Terrorist Today Word
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
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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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
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Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
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After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place

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