We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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We have the riots we deserve.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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 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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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