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.
ALAIN BADIOULove is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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A 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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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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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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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