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.
ALAIN BADIOUWe could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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 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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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 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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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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