The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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