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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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.
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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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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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 must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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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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