The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUFor 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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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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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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