We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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 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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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 cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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