Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOULove is not a contract between two narcissists.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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