Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOUThese latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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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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