Media Defecation

“The absence of the Other in the midst of shared sensuality is also what constitutes the depth and intensity of pleasure. Today, love—which now means nothing more than need, satisfaction, and enjoyment—is incompatible with the withdrawal and delay of the Other. Society, as a search engine, a machine for consumption, is abolishing the desire for what is absent—what cannot be found, seized, and consumed.”

“The mind ought to find a way out, but the mind has lost all capacity to so much as look outward. The mind is completely absorbed in doing itself violence.”

“I’ve loved life, I’m hungry for it. At the same time, life seems horrible to me, it seems inaccessible. That is why I am a believer, out of skepticism. Yes, I want to believe, I want to live, forever.”