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.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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 have the riots we deserve.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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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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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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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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