Bataille Blogs & Blog Posts
Posting Frequency on bataille
|
Distinct: |
Percent: |
Latest Blog Posts on bataille
- The yoga of despair by Notes From A Room on Nov 6, 2009
This mastery of our innermost movements, which in the long run we can acquire, is well known: it is yoga. But yoga is given in the form of coarse recipes, embellished with pedantism and with bizarre statements. And yoga, practiced for its own sake, a...
- X’s yoga by Notes From A Room on Jun 1, 2009
X wants to renounce hope, he tells me. He decided this yesterday while he got drunk and watched sitcoms. He wants to revolt against discourse like Bataille, he says, break down the refuge of the ‘I’. He wants to learn the yoga of despair...
- Revolt by Notes From A Room on Jun 1, 2009
I refused the reduction of experience to the poverty which I am. Even my ‘poverty’, in its own interest, demanded that I emerge from it. Revolt often has humble beginnings, but once begun doesn’t stop: I first wanted to return from a contemplat...
- Ecstasy by Notes From A Room on May 31, 2009
I could have told myself: value, authority — this is ecstasy; inner experience is ecstasy; ecstasy is, it seems, communication, which is opposed to the ‘turning in on oneself’ of which I have spoken. I would have in this way known and found...
