sirodoht reviewed The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
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Radical. Revolutionary. Transcendental. I probably understood half of it.
The negativity of otherness—that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability—is constitutive of erotic experience: “The other bears alterity as an essence. And this is why [we] have sought this alterity in the absolutely original relationship of eros, a relationship that is impossible to translate into powers.”
Radical. Revolutionary. Transcendental. I probably understood half of it.
The negativity of otherness—that is, the atopia of the Other, which eludes all ability—is constitutive of erotic experience: “The other bears alterity as an essence. And this is why [we] have sought this alterity in the absolutely original relationship of eros, a relationship that is impossible to translate into powers.”