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Time
"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is." - Bertrand Russell
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is [...]
Prison Guard
"People become excited trying to know if the prison came from the guard or if the guard came from the prison; even though this agitation has had a primordial historical importance, today it risks provoking delayed astonishment, if only because of the disproportion between the consequences of the debate & its radical insignificance." - Georges [...]
Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
Brand Heroes
Taking a suggestion from Tim, here are some “brand heroes” that exemplify the enemies.com “brand”:
Wilhelm Reich
Marquis De Sade
WS Burroughs
Georges Bataille
William Blake
Not sure what they all have in common, besides being stubborn motherfuckers. 3 spent time in prison. Two were sodomites. One was an inveterate “john.”
Walked the walked, talked the talk, and paid the price. Was [...]
Permission granted!
I’ve been following Tim Boucher’s blog lately with great interest lately - I mean really, I’m hooked. It’s like a train wreck. It’s painful to watch and yet I can’t look away.
I’ve only really been blogging for - what now - like two weeks? And I’m getting things out of it I never would expected. [...]
The Sky Goes Poo
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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 the universe, it’d make it like it is. In the transparency of the [...]
DIALOGUE
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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. Why not start a secret society and create our own values?
Bataille: Brilliant! What do you think, Sade?
Sade: I’m all [...]
