mediating desire + distance

Longing we say, because desire is full of endless distances – Robert Hass In a poem called “Meditation at Lagunitas,” the poet Robert Hass writes: “Longing, we say, because desire is full / of endless distances.” The simultaneously terrible and wonderful property of desire is that the intensity of feeling derives not from the fulfillment …

Bad Subjects: Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece: A Lacanian Reading

Bad Subjects: Shel Silverstein’s The Missing Piece: A Lacanian Reading Shel Silverstein’s book The Missing Piece creates a system of relations between beings where the structure of desire is presented without gender, but references a division between beings that resembles gender. Nate Garrelts The children’s book The Missing Piece, first published in March 1976, has just been reissued in …