Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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 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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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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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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 and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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