I often talk about love as one of the few places where people actually admit they want to become different. And so it’s like change without trauma, but it’s not change without instability. It’s change without guarantees, without knowing what the other side of it is, because it’s entering into relationality.
The thing I like about love as a concept for the possibility of the social, is that love always means non-sovereignty. Love is always about violating your own attachment to your intentionality, without being anti-intentional. I like that love is greedy. You want incommensurate things and you want them now. And the now part is important.
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Lauren Berlant (from “No One is Sovereign in Love: A Conversation Between Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt”) Hey look, it’s Ashlee Simpson! Except there’s this: “You don’t love me like I love you baby / Because the broken in you doesn’t make me run.” So functional love is also the ability to adapt to change with a clear vision of stability that’s nonetheless always on the horizon. It’s an unstable thing that only works if both people have faith in stability anyway. (Full disclosure: I’m not sure I totally understood this quote. I’m a little ambivalent about Lauren Berlant ever since she radically misread one of my favorite “Simpsons” episodes…) |
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