The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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