Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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