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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Alain Badiou

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
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
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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Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Almost Kind Love Paradise Serenity
It must on the contrary be named.
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Contrary Must Name
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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Adventure Could Equality Love Necessary Need Tenacious
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art Atheist Inhuman Main
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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After Day Defeat Encounter Endure Extend Field Invention Love Randomness Signify Victory
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Always Consist Declare Emancipatory Impose Make Politics Possible Precisely Seem Situation
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
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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Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
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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Art Basis Completely Explain Homological Ideology Impossible Maintain Real Relation Story Suppose
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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Archaic Call Consider Definition Exist Let Modern Old-fashion Way
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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All Begin Engage Oneself Resistance Rupture Through
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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Back Compose Connect Extract Language Mean Multiply Realty Stage
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
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
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Civil Course Institution Kind Latter Media Notably Science Television Trade Union
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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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Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
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
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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Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
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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Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two

But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

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