{"id":1721,"date":"2013-07-02T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/02\/absence-absence-but-isnt-desire-always-the\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:20:39","slug":"absence-absence-but-isnt-desire-always-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/02\/absence-absence-but-isnt-desire-always-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>absence<\/em> \/ absence<\/p>\n<p>But isn\u2019t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent?  Isn\u2019t the object <i>always<\/i> absent? \u2014This isn\u2019t the same languor: there are two words: <i>Pothos<\/i>, desire for the absent being, and <i>Him\u00e9ros<\/i>, the more burning desire for the present being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Roland Barthes<\/strong>, <em>The Absent One<\/em> from <em>A Lover\u2019s Discourse<\/em>, translation by Richard Howard (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/frenchtwist.tumblr.com\/\">frenchtwist<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>absence \/ absence But isn\u2019t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn\u2019t the object always absent? \u2014This isn\u2019t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Him\u00e9ros, the more burning desire for the present being. Roland Barthes, The Absent One from A Lover\u2019s Discourse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-rL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1692,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/04\/sublimation-does-not-mean-that-the-object\/","url_meta":{"origin":1721,"position":0},"title":"Sublimation \u2026 does not \u2026\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"July 4, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"Sublimation \u2026 does not \u2026 mean that the object must be changed or mutated. 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