The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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