Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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