We are not always able to remain true to our taboos all of the time. We allow a limited amount of transgression during certain situations to compensate for the building urge to return to the violence we came from, to […]
Bataille
Bataille's Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate
Found : Bataille’s Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate Bataille's "heterology" – from the Greek word for difference – concerns the different as such. It is the difference that must be expelled from the same in order for the same […]
Georges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism
Found : Georges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism French philosophers of the 20th century… took the new insights of Friedrich Nietzsche to its extreme and developed a totally new and unheard of philosophy: postmodernism. Crucial in the development […]
George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism
Found : George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism The core duality of Bataille’s thought is thus between the profane and the sacred. In a first moment, this distinction can be read along the lines of the double intentionality of self-consciousness, […]
Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille
Found : Divine Filth: The Lost Writings of Georges Bataille Could it be that Bataille secretly worshipped strength, and merely resigned himself to wallowing in ruin as the only thing a strong man can do in a world dominated by […]
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
Bataille’s Scatalogical Universe
FOUND: link In the poetry fragment: ‘The Sky Goes Poo Poo’, Bataille reveals the universe as the gratuitous, exorbitant phenomenon that it in fact is. No metaphor is too wild to describe the whole of existence: ‘If an orgasmic dick engendered […]
Marx, Batille and Nietzsche
FOUND: link Marx: The energy of the proletariat will be released through collective action. Bataille: Bravo! We can be noble savages again. Nietzsche: It would be better to release the energy of those who are truly noble– the higher men. […]