Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
ALAIN BADIOU
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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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