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"What frightens religion is not the importance of sex / No, the terrifying thing is that sex may repel any donation of meaning".
"What frightens religion is not the importance of sex, quite the contrary. The Church fathers knew quite a bit about sex, its perversions, its effects, and they were the last to underestimate its importance. No, what frightened them is the fact that sex can command a conception of truth separate from meaning. The terrifying thing is that sex may repel any donation of meaning, whereas the very existence of religion depends on its capacity to spiritualize the sexual relation, thereby forcing it to signify. Freud enlisted the century in a great battle about sex, meaning and truth, a battle that Lacan depicted as a great confrontation between religion and psychoanalysis. What is at stake in this conflict is the question of knowing whether sex has a meaning, or to put it like Lacan, whether there is something reasonably connected in sex, something like a sexual 'relation'; or whether the subjective destiny of sexuation submits the subject to a senseless truth, the truth that, in Lacan's words once more, there is no sexual relation."
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I fuck, therefore God does not exist.
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
streetlight.bsky.social
"What frightens religion is not the importance of sex / No, the terrifying thing is that sex may repel any donation of meaning".
"What frightens religion is not the importance of sex, quite the contrary. The Church fathers knew quite a bit about sex, its perversions, its effects, and they were the last to underestimate its importance. No, what frightened them is the fact that sex can command a conception of truth separate from meaning. The terrifying thing is that sex may repel any donation of meaning, whereas the very existence of religion depends on its capacity to spiritualize the sexual relation, thereby forcing it to signify. Freud enlisted the century in a great battle about sex, meaning and truth, a battle that Lacan depicted as a great confrontation between religion and psychoanalysis. What is at stake in this conflict is the question of knowing whether sex has a meaning, or to put it like Lacan, whether there is something reasonably connected in sex, something like a sexual 'relation'; or whether the subjective destiny of sexuation submits the subject to a senseless truth, the truth that, in Lacan's words once more, there is no sexual relation."
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Bodies without Organs!
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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YEssss lmao
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Deleuzian baroque band called Avenged Manifolds
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Essay from Bento Prado Jr.'s Error, Illusion, Madness
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Ideas I
We perceive the physical thing by virtue of its being "adumbrated" in respect of all the determinations which, in a given case, "actually" and properly "fall within the scope of' perception. A mental process is not adumbrated. It is neither an accident of the own peculiar sense of the physical thing nor a contingency of "our human constitution," that "our" perception can arrive at physical things themselves only through mere adumbrations of them. Rather is it evident and drawn from the essence of spatial physical things (even in the widest sense, which includes "sight things") that, necessarily a being of that kind can be given in perception only through any adumbration; and in like manner it is evident from the essence of cogitationes, from the essence of mental processes of any kind, that they exclude anything like that.
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Americans should generally expect that so long as they touch anything that exists they are in some way abetting genocide, knowingly or not.
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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This is Kantian comedy! Particularly, a comedy of the sublime. What's funny comes from the disproportion between the unthinkable of what's happening and the mundanity of the sensible which has to 'present' it still. Hence the mild effect of horror with the humor.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Naturally the American has no understanding of supply chains and expects burger to be available in store as and when she likes. The abode of production is hidden to her. But she calls the Planning Commission and they generously oblige.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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ok last sentence is not true, the Monroe Doctrine is still in effect and she gets mad when the South American guy wants nothing to do with her
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM