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.
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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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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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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 must on the contrary be named.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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 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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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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