What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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If 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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