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 BADIOUI 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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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