Dea T.

In structuralist terms any discourse at some level alludes to the absences it intrinsically sets in abeyance: whether being (versus conceptualizing), speaking (versus writing-reading), sexuality (versustextuality), music (versus letters), and so forth. Every discourse, likeevery culture, inclines toward what it is not: toward an implicit... See more

other. In Lacanian terms,our claimed solidarity with the other masks our desire. This opens a psychoanalytic reading of anthropology to listen for an ambivalence often absent in our ethics—what might we repress in an emphasis on empa

But I also think we fall in love with people who let us be stupid. Playful. Less performative. It’s anti-branding.