We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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