It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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