Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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