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 BADIOUWhat is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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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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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 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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