Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUAll 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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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What 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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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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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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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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