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.
ALAIN BADIOUTo 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
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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