Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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