Martina Canullo

Returning to Barthes, he said, “The fatal feature of any passion is that it craves an eternity while knowing its own possibility.” There’s a specific hunger that isn’t sated by bodies

“We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation.”

Of how too much possibility can fray the edges of a person.

“rebel instinct”, an aversion to subordination so strong it appears even in other primates. Where the status instinct climbs, the rebel instinct sidesteps the ladder entirely - sometimes inventing new measures of worth altogether.

According to Todd Pezzuti, Caleb Warren and Jinjie Chen in their study Cool People , the earliest roots of cool lie in the African diaspora, in West African ideas like itutu (Yoruba for “coolness”), which refers to a state of spiritual composure and grace under pressure. Confronting the brutal realities of slavery and Jim Crow, African Americans... See more

“The Importance of Being Earnest,” by Oscar Wilde, opened, on February 14, 1895, in London, the date was well chosen.