Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUTo 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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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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