Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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 fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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