The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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