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
ALAIN BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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