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.
ALAIN BADIOUFor 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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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In 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 without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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