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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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 need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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 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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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