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 BADIOUIn order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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In 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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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