289 definitions
The book's index
The Agony of Eros
168 concepts · 289 definitions
- ability1
- absolute2
- accumulation1
- achievement society1
- achievement-subject2
- agony of eros1
- annoyance1
- apocalypse1
- art1
- atonement1
- atopia2
- auto-affection1
- auto-compulsion1
- beloved1
- big data1
- body1
- border2
- burnout society1
- calculating thought1
- capitalism6
- caress1
- choice1
- coercion1
- cognition2
- comparison1
- conclusion1
- consumer culture1
- consumption1
- contemplation1
- continuity1
- correlation1
- countenance2
- data storage1
- death3
- decency1
- declaration of love1
- depression5
- desire3
- dialectic1
- difference1
- disappointment2
- disaster3
- dying1
- ego1
- emma bovary1
- end of history1
- ending1
- entrepreneur of the self1
- erlebnis1
- eros16
- erotic2
- erotic desire1
- erotic experience1
- eroticism3
- event2
- eventfulness1
- exhibition1
- exploitation1
Love (n.) is the one event a world of projects cannot host, since it wounds and cannot be planned.
Love (n.) is no tidy pact between two people but the extreme experience of someone else actually existing.
Love (n.) is in crisis not from a surplus of others but from the wearing away of the Other.
Love (n.) is not a possibility or an initiative of ours; it invades and wounds.
Eros (n.) is a revolutionary yearning for a different way of loving and another society, loyal to what has not yet come.
Eros (n.) is the son of Poros, the way, so thinking that ventures onto uncharted terrain is shown a path and does not get lost.
Eros (n.) is not an affirmation of bare life but an intensification of life until it touches death.
Eros (n.) feeds political revolt and engagement as a source of energy.
Thinking (n.) demands calm; it is an expedition into quietness.
Thinking (n.) withers into mere work, always reproducing the Same, when the atopic Other no longer seduces it.
Thinking (n.) cannot be data-driven; only calculation is driven by data.
Thinking (n.) in the strong sense begins with eros, so to think you must first have been a friend, a lover.
Pornography (n.) draws its appeal from foretasting dead sex inside living sexuality.
Pornography (n.) strengthens habit by erasing otherness, and its consumer does not even have a sexual counterpart.
Pornography (n.) leaves the face saying nothing, with neither expression nor mystery.
Pornography (n.) is precisely the lack of contact or encounter with the Other.
Capitalism (n.) is aimed at bare life, not the good life: its compulsive growth is a flight from death as absolute loss.
Capitalism (n.) is not a religion, because a religion offers pardon and capitalism offers only debt and default.
Capitalism (n.) knows one use for sexuality, putting it on show, and so turns eros into porn.
Capitalism (n.) abolishes otherness wholesale so that everything can be consumed.
Spirit (n.) would bleed to death from the Other's wounds if it could not reach a conclusion.
Spirit (n.) earns its life by looking the negative in the face and lingering there, not by shutting its eyes.
Spirit (n.) cannot exist where positivity has swollen to excess.
Spirit (n.) can only live through its own annihilation in love, since for the Other to arrive you must no longer be anything.
Theory (n.) and ritual share an origin: both give the world a form.
Theory (n.) is a primordial decision about what counts and what does not matter.
Theory (n.) is highly selective narration that cuts a clearing of differentiation through untrodden terrain.
Theory (n.) stops things from running together and sprawling, which is to say it reduces entropy.
The Depression (n.) cannot conclude, and without conclusion everything dissolves into blur.
The Depression (n.) is a self worn down to nothing, with no world to live in and no Other left.
Depression (n.) is a narcissistic illness, made of self-reference swollen until it distorts.
Depression (n.) and eros are opposites: one draws the subject out toward the Other, the other pushes it deeper inside.
Information (n.) as positivity changes nothing and announces nothing.
Information (n.) running rampant is an excess of positivity, and it makes a racket.
Information (n.) and fantasy are opposing forces.
Information (n.) in a mass deforms the world and raises its noise level.
Lover (n.) freed from narcissistic captivity starts to pay attention to others.
Lover (n.) in philosophy is no empirical personality but a living category belonging to thought itself.
Lover (n.) is dead in himself and alive again in the other, nearer to the beloved the farther he stands from himself.
Lover (n.) is being weakened and feels strong at the same time.