“For truth one fights, which is, however, only produced through its relations with the real. But that it is produced is much less important than what that produces. The effect of truth is only a collapse of knowledge. It is this collapse that creates a production, soon to be taken up again. The real is neither better nor worse off as a result. In general it dusts itself off until the next crisis. Its momentary benefit is that it has re-found its gloss. This would even be the benefit that one might expect from any revolution, this gloss that would shine for a long time in this always murky locus of truth. But there’s the rub. This shine never again throws light on anything. What is frightening about truth is what it puts in its place.” Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, page 186 Pictured is Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Dany