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“For Beauvoir, as for Bataille, eroticism and mysticism are linked in that both express human beings’ desire to be everything.”
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
“Writing is an attempt to inscribe presence (transparence) that is always predicated on absence: the absence of the other to whomone writes and the absence of the self to that addressee”
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
“In the photograph, something of the dead remains, even as in taking the photograph, the subject’s death is foreshadowed. Photography, according to these accounts, is a relic, a remnant of the subject through which it is present to the world even after destruction (in the case of inanimate physical objects) or death (in the case of living creatures); the photograph is the best of all possible fetishes.”
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
― Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
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