We can’t thank Stuart Kendall enough for his priceless translations of Bataille’s work. It’s amazing how clearly he can explain Bataille’s body of thought. Great content, thank you!
Bataille references “dance” often … why is dance not posited as the “miracle” that writing cannot achieve? Dance incinerates itself. I mean non-choreography. Acephale should have been a dance company. Also to add … dance is to copula’s own ipseite
I see great promise in validating Georges Batallie's Nietzscheanism from the standpoint of Christian-socialist eschatology when it is put in conversation with the Nietzschean hyperlogic of René Girard and François Laruelle. This seems like an obscure idea still unfortunately.
@@cosmo7495 He leveraged more criticism against Socialists than Socialism and, if I'm being honest, as a Socialist, he's often not wrong. His big argument is that Socialists valorize the opressed and vilianize the oppressor which is just moralism and therefor trash to Nietzsche. Instead Nietzsche calls on man to reconsider all moral and intellectual dogma and to not just create a new man but to create a new systems of living that will create a higher, fuller, more exceptional human beings. Ironically, there are many parallels to that exact thought in Marx: particularly in Socialism Scientific and Utopian where Marxs talks at lengths about how the earnest sentiment and moralism of most Socialists cannot effect change and only a radical restructuring of our economic and social order can create lasting improvements.
Bataille gave his dead mother quite the accursed share. Did the act begin in Nietzschean effervescence and end in the sobriety of praxis or vice-versa?
Instead of parsing transgressive esotericism in search of a concept that we can harness to effectively address a problem like climate change, wouldn't the event itself, given its exigency, furnish its own utility with which to build a community?
Great talk Just listened to your Solar Anus reading HIs "vision" might have bee a mushroom trip (and yes i checked,, they didn't have ketamine back then)
