Dea T.

In my entire life I have never met a stranger who didn’t have some fascinating life experiences that spilled out if I asked the right questions. Everyone is interesting if you make the situation feel safe. Here’s a summary of good conversation technique. Ask questions. Don’t complain (much). Don’t talk about boring experiences (TV show, meal,

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“Eros concerns the Other in a strong sense, namely, what cannot be encompassed by the regime of the ego. Therefore, in the inferno of the same, which contemporary society is increasingly becoming, erotic experience does not exist. Erotic experience presumes asymmetry and exteriority of the Other.”

Like our own imagination, art can wander off, seeking out the edges, the borderlands, the mysteries. Indeed, this autonomy is art’s power and part of its emotional appeal. But this very ability to separate from everyday material life may also make art impotent in trying to shape the world from which it has escaped. At most it can be a nudge or a

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Eros isn’t in the romance between Aphrodite and Adonis; nor in the jealousy or vengeance that surrounds Artemis. It is found in the beast, and yes, specifically the boar’s tusks—the tusks that pierced and killed that which it wanted to caress.

Twentieth-century philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, described the caress as a “game with something slipping... See more