All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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