The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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