Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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