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 BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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