Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Quote of the month.

"Yet pain, like any other experiential mode, cannot be reduced to a set of immediate sensory qualities. It is ultimately a manner of being-in-the-world. As such, pain reorganizes our lived space and time, our relations with others and with ourselves. [...] In pleasure there is ordinarily no threat to one's being, no mysterious etiology, no aversiveness to be removed. As such one simply 'enjoys' the pleasure." -Drew Leder

You may ask yourself what this has to do with the subject matter I ordinarily concern myself with here. If you have played with me, you know I am not a strict sadist. Rather, I think this work goes directly to the heart of why comingling pleasure and pain is the joy of play. Don't think of pain and pleasure literally, alternatively. Think of pain as discomfort, submission, in relationship to joy and desire. What good would submission be without desire, and vice versa?

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