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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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