Abstract
Much recent work on desire examines the ambiguities of identity and activity, demonstrating that desire is a complex phenomenon that uneasily negotiates norms, causes disruptions, and produces unforeseeable complications. This essay returns to an earlier text that traces the vacillation between desire for the familiar and desire for new possibilities in order to show not only that the new moves in theory around desire and sexuality return to old themes, but that older texts can help examine new forms of identity, community, and association that maintain tensions between belonging and innovation. This is a particularly important task given the common assumption that desire and sexuality are selfish aims. As I hope will be clear from this discussion of the Symposium, there is much to be gained if desire is considered the founding move in ethics and social organization, a reconceptualization that points desire away from solely selfish, individual concerns and toward just, collective possibility.
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