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.
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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 absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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To 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 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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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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