There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOU
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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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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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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