Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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 a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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