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.
ALAIN BADIOUThere 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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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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