Articulation for a Lovers Discourse

Introduction to "Articulation for a Lovers Discourse".
“Articulation for a Discourse Between Lovers” is a short story that draws on the themes and style of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. It expands Barthes’ original reflection by replacing monologue with narrative dialogue. Lover#1 and Lover#2, the story’s protagonists, are isolated from one another and are forced to live out their relationship through the ritualized simulations of the digital.

In this narrative, amorous virtuality becomes the place where the technological symptomatologies of our time are examined and where the relationship between subject and medium—into which both protagonists invest their libido—is brought into focus. Within this atmosphere, discursive articulation is possible only through the mediation of media that have become fetishes, collapsing the space-time of both body and desire.

Preface:
This text was born from a personal need to narrate, inspired by Fragments of a Love Discourse. The monologue has been transformed into dialogue, while the conclusions remain a certified copy: today, the discourse of love is marked by extreme solitude.

Technological narration no longer bridges the distance between bodies. Unlike science, art unites what life divides, offering direction, but without practice, both risk becoming mere fetishization.

Ultimately, we discover that fiction is a form of exile from reality, an affirmation for those who love. To be lovers is to be artists, and therefore Fakers, fragments of class that harmonize the general expressiveness.