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’.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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 aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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