The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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For 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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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