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.
ALAIN BADIOUA Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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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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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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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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