Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUThere 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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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