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.
ALAIN BADIOUlet 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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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