Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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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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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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