“Traditionally in Western philosophy, tropes like “veils” and “screens” figure as blinds that obscure truth, illusions that mystify reality: we are supposed to shed them (like the scales before our eyes in the New Testament), to see beyond them (like the shadows on the wall in the cave of Plato), to tear them asunder (like the veil of Maya in Schopenhauer). In Lacan, on the contrary, the screen is a necessary protection without which we are at the mercy of the real; almost as a structural effect, then, his binary logic constructs the real as horrific —and positions the symbolic as protective, and art as redemptive. […] Far from a phenomenological plenitude, the Lacanian real is a black hole, a negative space of nonsociality—indeed, of nonsubjectivity.”

“O, how gentle lust alters a body, conjugates prey into prayer.”

the carnivorous lamb, agustín gómez arcos