I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUTo believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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