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Tag Archives: Bataille
Taboo, Transgression, and Death
Found : Taboo, Transgression, and Death 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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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The Necessary Devil of Twain, de Sade, Bataille and Artaud
Found : The Necessary Devil of Twain, de Sade, Bataille and Artaud The ultimate adversary in this view is the Gnostic’s evil Demiurge who rules not only the world but who in order to do so must disguise himself as … Continue reading
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Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism
Found : Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism Kojève’s student Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a sociologist and anthropologist. Drury writes, “In Bataille’s view, the deathlike state of modern life has its source in the undisputed triumph of God and his … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site: Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga. Animism … Continue reading
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Gate
"we live in a cage of light an incredible cage animals animals without end" – Ikkyu "There is, in every man, an animal thus imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, … Continue reading
Antinomianism
"I agree with Nietzche that to be truly free, one must commit evil [acts]" – Georges Bataille "Man is evil – all the wisest men have told me that to comfort me. Oh, if only this were true today! For … Continue reading
