In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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 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 attests to what is inhuman in man.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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