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’.
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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 attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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