There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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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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