Status Updates From Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of ...

“We are free in our thoughts precisely in so far as they are at a distance from reality […] Once our inner life is directly linked to reality so that our thoughts have immediate material consequences or can be manipulated by a machine that is part of reality and are, in this sense, no longer ours, we effectively enter a post-human state.”

“if he were passionately in love with his sexual partner, her body would have mattered to him since every gesture of touching her would disturb the core of her subjectivity. […] One should therefore invert the common wisdom according to which sexual lust is bodily while love is spiritual, sexual love is more bodily than sex without love.”