Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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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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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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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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The 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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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