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Just like all you adulterers out there, tripping over your big floppy shoes chasing improbable fulfillment, knowing full well it has the whiff of a doomed undertaking, we theorists, too, propel ourselves in pursuit of seductive and alluring objects because something essential seems to lie in that general direction.
Laura Kipnis, “Adultery”, in Berlant’s Intimacy, p. 16
