These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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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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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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