All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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 aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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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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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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