Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUThe cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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 aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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 must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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