It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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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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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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