I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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