Chiara Rotunno

And one of the great tragedies of our time is how thoroughly we are trained to distrust this kind of knowing. From a young age, we are encouraged to prioritise strategy over spontaneity, prudence over passion. We are told to plan our lives, manage our time, brand our personalities. Desire, in this framework, is a liability… too wild, too messy, too

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Even aesthetics (our taste in art, clothes, music, furniture) is guided by erotic decision-making. Why do you wear that coat, hang that painting, play that song on repeat? Because something in it stirs you, it says: this is me or the me I’m becoming. The erotic is not decoration; it is design. It builds the architecture of the life we secretly want

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