Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUFor a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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The 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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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