Velvet Rapture

Books on the philosophy of love/lust: - Eroticism, Bataille - Eros the Bittersweet, Carson - Lover’s Discourse, Barthes - Philosophy of (Erotic) Love, Solomon - In Praise of Love, Badiou - Classic works: Plato's Symposium & Phaedrus, Ovid's Ars Amatoria; Stendhal On Love

The Soviet Union never had its own sexual revolution equivalent, and indeed actively backslid and compromised on issues of women's rights until by the 70's and 80's the United States was genuinely a better place for them to live. The statistics regarding child abuse are also bad.

“Hugely, spring exists again.” — John Ashbery, “Grand Galop”

What Sartre liked so much about paintings is that they have nothing to say, and he thought that writers should strive for the same thing. Rancière saw this thought as a sign of the modernist move from representation to expression, towards the "mute speech" of art & literature

From an interview with Kluge

There's no separating the art from the artist when the artist is alive and using your hp money for the anti trans movement

I forgot how much of a hard drug is reading Borges... now how do I get down from this high?