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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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.
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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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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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 feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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