The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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 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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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If 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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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