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 »
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Meditation on Death
By basho - Posted on September 18th, 2008
Tagged: anguish
• Bataille
• Desire
• dying
• energy
• establishing value
• existentialism
• facing death
• feeling
• love
• morality
• mortality
• Philosophy
• vitality
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
