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.
ALAIN BADIOUIf 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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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 is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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What 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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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 am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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