I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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