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.
ALAIN BADIOUThere 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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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It 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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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