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 BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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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 have the riots we deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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