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 BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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