Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU
Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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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