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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.

Alain Badiou

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOU

Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Absolute Appearance Contingency Destiny Encounter Take
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
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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Being Creation Fact Fragment Give Nothing Obscuranist Sccumb Situation Theory
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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All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Contact Love Narcissist Two
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Communism Hypothesis Know Right
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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Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
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
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
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
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some

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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