We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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 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 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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It must on the contrary be named.
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