There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
ALAIN BADIOUArt 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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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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 aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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