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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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