We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUIf 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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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