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The Eastern wind is getting the better of the Western one. How much longer will the poor and dark West, the “international community” of those who still think of themselves as masters of the world, continue to give lessons of good management and behaviour to the whole planet? Isn't it laughable to see certain intellectuals on duty, disconcerted soldiers of the capital-parliamentarism that stands as a shabby paradise for us, offering themselves to the magnificent Tunisian and Egyptian peoples in order to teach these savage populations the basics of “democracy”?

What a distressing persistence of colonial arrogance! Given the miserable political situation that we are experiencing, isn't it obvious that it is us who have everything to learn from the current popular uprisings?

Shouldn't we, in all urgency, closely study what has made possible the overthrow through collective action of governments that are oligarchic, corrupt and—possibly, above all—humiliatingly the vassals of Western states?

Yes, we should be the pupils of such movements, and not their stupid teachers. That is because, through the genius of their own inventions, they give life to some political principles that some have been trying for so long to convince us that they are outdated. And especially the principle that Marat never stopped reminding us of: when it comes to freedom, equality, emancipation, we owe everything to popular uprisings.

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Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d'est balaie l'arrogance de l'Occident

LEMONDE.FR | 18.02.11 | 12h41 • Mis à jour le 18.02.11 | 16h36

Peut-on sérieusement penser que ces innombrables initiatives et ces sacrifices cruels n'ont pour but fondamental que de conduire les gens à "choisir" entre Souleiman et El Baradei, comme chez nous on se résigne piteusement à arbitrer entre MM. Sarkozy et Strauss-Kahn ? Telle serait l'unique leçon de ce splendide épisode ?

Non, mille fois non ! Les peuples tunisiens et égyptiens nous disent : se soulever, construire le lieu public du communisme de mouvement, le défendre par tous les moyens en y inventant les étapes successives de l'action, tel est le réel de la politique populaire d'émancipation. Il n'y a certes pas que les Etats des pays arabes qui soient anti-populaires et, sur le fond, élections ou pas, illégitimes.

Quel qu'en soit le devenir, les soulèvements tunisiens et égyptiens ont une signification universelle. Ils prescrivent des possibilités neuves dont la valeur est internationale.

Alain Badiou, philosophe
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__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

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As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.

Radio DelEuZe

27.2.11

Alain Badiou

Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d'est balaie l'arrogance de l'Occident

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