I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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.
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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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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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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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