The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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