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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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What 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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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