The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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 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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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