cont’d The Hebrew word for decree which I have inserted in the parentheses in the text is But this enslaved individual, whom we moderns recognize so well, has lost touch with the erotics of desire. The wonder of being on the inside — the sens ...
Archive for October 12th, 2008
Mirrors of Desire: Marc Gafni
This blog seeks to unpack the beautiful text we cited in this mornings post. The myth understands that the erotics of desire is the dynamic that arouses the impulse to freedom and human dignity. Slavery is about the deadening of Eros and desire. The ...
The Politics of Repression, part two: Marc Gafni
Islamic fundamentalism was not the first to attempt at the repression of liberty through the crushing of the erotic and the sexual. There is an absolutely wonderful ancient tradition about eros and liberty. It describes how the Hebrew slaves managed ...
The Politics of Repression: Marc Gafni
Whenever we divorce sex from the overarching frameworks of eros we vastly diminish its power. If we either strip it of eros or alternatively make it the exclusive focus of our erotic desire then we exile the Shechina. The result is a crisis of emptin ...