There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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