Occupation: Philosopher Birth: March 21, 1949
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, ….
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom..
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction..
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do..
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner..
If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them..
Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots..
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it..
Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions..
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures..
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I a….
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire..
What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?.
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious..
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on..
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they ar….
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the ….
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is somet….
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Becaus….
It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse..
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the pr….