The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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 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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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