Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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 need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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What 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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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