Bataille

I'm so sick of all the people who casually rattle off "Oh I don't have a religion, I don't believe in God, I'm an atheist." As if to have any faith in a higher power is nothing but pure foolishness and ignorance.  Read More »

What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point.  Read More »

Why I Write (Words to get beyond words)/
Why I Think (Concepts to get beyond concepts)
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The subtle tie between experience and language cannot be denied. The larger a vocabulary one has in a given subject, the more in-depth and intricate one can experience that subject. Vice-versa, the more experience one has with a certain subject the more language he will have to communicate it. Consider, for example, a food critic.  Read More »