For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat 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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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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