But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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 aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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