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- Title
Tears of Potentiality, Love of Liquid Rupture.
- Authors
TSAGDIS, GEORGIOS
- Abstract
The present essay collects the singular plurality of love, its countless forms and expressions in the figure of the tear, where love weeps and breaks at once. In this equivocation, the tear signifies the possibility of all relation, in which love operates as pure potentiality. Arranged in two parts and a coda the essay examines the genealogy of an ongoing theoretical exclusion of the potential of love from politics. It argues that love in its singular plurality must be placed at the heart of every revolutionary and emancipatory project in the service of difference. Accordingly it turns to Elizabeth Smart's writing, where the twofold figure of the tear sets the stakes of love into relief, demonstrating the debt love incurs in the unfolding of its immense potential, which makes possible an incessant recreation of the world. Language finds here the means to relate the experience of rupture and liquidation of the self, an experience violent and creative in equal measure. The essay closes with the summative significance of love's potentiality as the force that sets into motion a task that surpasses itself, a cause for which its infinite power is bound to prove insufficient yet evermore indispensible.
- Subjects
LOVE; POTENTIALITY theory (Philosophy); SELF (Philosophy); SMART, Elizabeth, 1913-1986; ARENDT, Hannah, 1906-1975; WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0252-8169
- Publication type
Article