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.
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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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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