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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.

Alain Badiou

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
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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Abandon Capitalism Character Economy Hypothesis Immediate Inevitable Market Monstrous Inequalities Natural Parliamentary Resign State
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
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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Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
It must on the contrary be named.
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Contrary Must Name
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Discipline Have Nothing Only
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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Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Collect Communism Enthusiasm Love Minimal People Politics
In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Change Democracy Improve Ironical Necessary Order People Propose
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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False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
We have the riots we deserve.
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Deserve Riot We
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Country Elsewhere New Truth Word
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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Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely

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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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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