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 BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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