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 BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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 know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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