Desiderata
Daisy Lafarge| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 20 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 21 days ago |
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The Sanatorial #6 – Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
The Sanatorial is a Q&A with artists and writers about fantasies of the sanatorium and the relationship between illness and practice.
In 2019 I bought a novel by an author I’d never heard of, intrigued by the blurb and the fact that I seem...
Simone Weil in Venice
on Weil's unfinished play and an unmade film by Liliana Cavani
This is the second part in a series on places visited by Weil. You can read the first part on Marseille here.
Lacan, Illness, Daughters, Diagnosis, Father, Romance
I wrote an essay about the romance of diagnosis for the Parapraxis ‘Romance’ issue, which is now online. I’m obsessed with these tags at the bottom of the page:
The essay is full of unresolved symptoms, by which I mean it’s about too many...
The Sanatorial #5 – Vijay Masharani
Welcome to The Sanatorial, a Q&A with artists and writers about fantasies of the sanatorium and the relationship between illness and practice.
Six lights, 2025. Graphite, colored pencil and marker on paper. Photo by Flavio Pescatori. Court...
the romance of the sick rose
a new pamphlet
This post is for paid subscribers, with a preview below. I also have five physical copies of the pamphlet to send to paid subscribers (anywhere in the world) — if this is you, you can reach me by replying to the post in your...
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