Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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