…the loss of the past might carry an erotic charge.
carolyn dinshaw, getting medieval: sexualities and communities, pre- and post-modern (via karaj)
Ah, yeah. I just got out of seminar and we were talking about this very thing. Someone in class actually termed the kind of pleasure we GET from the archive as a “Hitachi epiphany” (vs. the kind of pleasure we WANT from the archive, which I guess would be like an epiphany/archive-gasm not mediated through a vibrator? Which is problematic in other ways.) Anyway, we were discussing Anjali Arondekar’s book, For the Record, in which she kind of suggests we take pleasure in the incompleteness of the hunt because of the incompleteness, not despite it. As a kind of “lingering” or “edging” or, basically, delayed (forever) gratification/archival tantra. Related maybe to Barthes’ “dialectics of desire.”
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