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Alain Badiou

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
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
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
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
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Age Dance Let Malady Often Paas Philosophical Remedy Say Worse
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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Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat
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 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
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
We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Communism Hypothesis Know Right
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
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 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
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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Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
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

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