Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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