Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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 process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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