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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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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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I 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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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