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.
ALAIN BADIOUArt 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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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