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
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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