Think of how unreadable the lover is, even when response is well amplified. Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant’s latest and final novel, published posthumously after their tragic death in 2021, begins its meditation on inconvenience with an essay called “Sex in the Event of Happiness.” The essay deals primarily with the ways sex as event or episode disrupts self-conceptions of sovereignty, demanding we relinquish control, possibly have a bad or forgettable time, and engage intimately with another person in ways we may simultaneously desire and need but hate and resent. Sometimes we cannot even bear them.
Tu m'aime or tu m'aime, continued
Tu m'aime or tu m'aime, continued
Tu m'aime or tu m'aime, continued
Think of how unreadable the lover is, even when response is well amplified. Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant’s latest and final novel, published posthumously after their tragic death in 2021, begins its meditation on inconvenience with an essay called “Sex in the Event of Happiness.” The essay deals primarily with the ways sex as event or episode disrupts self-conceptions of sovereignty, demanding we relinquish control, possibly have a bad or forgettable time, and engage intimately with another person in ways we may simultaneously desire and need but hate and resent. Sometimes we cannot even bear them.