OUT NOW: Rachel James's An Eros Encyclopedia! @a_snails_tomb ⁠ ⁠ To want to reveal; to want to reveal enough; to desire; to desire in the right way, the right amount: in her debut book, Rachel James narrates the desiring subject’s nuanced and entangled intimacies with histories of power. How, in other words, under patriarchy, against misogyny, within capitalist strictures, is knowledge shaped, contained, and transferred? Tracing traditions of theater, pedagogy, and faith, An Eros Encyclopedia offers up desire and the attunement to its many objects as the atmosphere of a life—a method to navigate, perceive, and relate against the illusion of separation.⁠ ⁠ Psychoanalysis said Eros was a mischief maker, an ancient child playing hide and seek, where the pleasure of language for language’s sake is the most pure stakes of the game. Come read the luminous incantation that is Rachel James’s An Eros Encyclopedia and remember: "You are an acceptable chaos discipline, God of provocation and humor, You are an explosively elegant being.”⁠ –Jamieson Webster @jamiesonwebster⁠ ⁠ Image descriptions in comments.⁠