Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace
Anne Carson, Eros, The Bittersweet
Fanny Howe, The Future is Like Magic: A Notebook
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Tag: eros
But isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
(via astranemus)
Anne Carson from “The Glass Essay”
Sarah Lucas, The Pleasure Principle 2000 Chairs, neon tube, light bulbs and underwear 116 x 181 x 251 cm 45¾ x 71¼ x 98¾"
Jenny Boully from The Body: An Index
Nobuyoshi Araki from “The Eros Demon” (2018)
Desire doesn’t aspire
to anything other than itself—I don’t miss so-&-so,
just being seen in that way,just having an unholy place
to rest, set all this down— Alina Pleskova, from “Re:Eros,” published in the American Poetry Review
TRACEY EMIN
The memory of your touch, 2016
Giclee photograph mounted on aluminium plate, edition of 3 + 2 AP
239.7 x 152.4 cm
Courtesy Xavier Hufkens. Photo: HV studio
A compilation of a series of love letters addressed by Jacques Derrida to an unnamed loved one.
From The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
J Abrams, Cupid’s arrow, 2017, salvaged chair and archery arrow
Sophie Calle from Exquisite Pain
Little Bristling Soul 