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.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Art 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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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