There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUI 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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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