The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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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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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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 is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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