Sensible Ecstasy Quotes

“For Beauvoir, as for Bataille, eroticism and mysticism are linked in that both express human beings’ desire to be everything.”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

“Writing is an attempt to inscribe presence (transparence) that is always predicated on absence: the absence of the other to whomone writes and the absence of the self to that addressee”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

“Writing is an attempt to inscribe presence (transparence) that is always predicated on absence: the absence of the other to whom one writes and the absence of the self to that addressee.”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

“What Said says of European discussions of the Orient applies to Bataille’s discussion of the photographs of the torture victim: it is precisely the distance between Bataille and the victim that enables him both to particularize the suffering other (in ways that efface the historical and political grounds of his or her suffering) and to generalize
from that individual to the suffering of any and all human beings.”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History

“In the photograph, something of the dead remains, even as in taking the photograph, the subject’s death is foreshadowed. Photography, according to these accounts, is a relic, a remnant of the subject through which it is present to the world even after destruction (in the case of inanimate physical objects) or death (in the case of living creatures); the photograph is the best of all possible fetishes.”
― Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History