desire | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:22:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Reimagining Excess https://www.thesmartset.com/reimagining-excess/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reimagining-excess https://www.thesmartset.com/reimagining-excess/#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:22:02 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64738 “All Things Are Too Small” declares the title, borrowed from a 13th-century Dutch mystic, of the new collection of essays by Becca Rothfeld, one of the most prolific and versatile critics working today. The claim initially confused me. Too small? Casting a weary glance at the way we live now — visual excess blaring from […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/reimagining-excess/feed/ 0 Sex with the Dead https://www.thesmartset.com/sex-with-the-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sex-with-the-dead https://www.thesmartset.com/sex-with-the-dead/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:52:35 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=41605 “Urge and urge and urge,” Whitman intoned. “Always the procreant urge of the world.” These words signal the life instinct, eros, that innate, libidinal drive for pleasure and survival. Humans are compelled by life, attracted to it and aroused by it. The procreant urge motivates us to act, stimulates our choices and actions, shapes our […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/sex-with-the-dead/feed/ 0 Desire is Complicated https://www.thesmartset.com/desire-is-complicated-chekhov-hamlet-character/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=desire-is-complicated-chekhov-hamlet-character https://www.thesmartset.com/desire-is-complicated-chekhov-hamlet-character/#respond Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:26:22 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=7705 The truth is, almost all of us want more than just one thing. The child who wants water also wants to share it with his mother. The mother wants her child to have water and also food. Take a look at Chekhov’s stories. Maybe you already have and are already acquainted with his distinctively realistic stories. […]

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