Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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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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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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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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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