Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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 attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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