What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUA 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 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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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