We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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 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.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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