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.
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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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