We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOULove 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 aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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