All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
ALAIN BADIOUI am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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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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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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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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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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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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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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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