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.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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