Georges Bataille: “Remember That in War Is Truth”
From now on, your joy will debase and trample underfoot your repose, your sleep, and even your suffering. Remember that truth is not stable ground but the ceaseless movement that destroys all that you are and all that you see. REMEMBER THAT IN WAR IS TRUTH You will not cease before you recognize yourself as […]
Bataille’s “unemployed negativity” as an opening with no issue
If action (“doing”) is –as Hegel says– negativity, the question arises as to whether the negativity of one who has “nothing more to do” disappear or remains in a state of “unemployed negativity.” Personally, I can only decide in one way, being myself precisely this “unemployed negativity” (I would not be able to define myself […]
François Laruelle on communication
ABSTRACT – The work of François Laruelle is not often mentioned in the fields of communication and media studies. Those research notes propose to outline three points of intersection. The first point is a short essay Laruelle wrote specifically about communication. Alongside a brief overview of this essay, it is suggested that a model already […]
“Losing too is still ours”, Rainer Maria Rilke, 1924
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kindgdom of transformation. When something’s let go of, it circles; and though we [are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, [marvelous curve. ☛ “For Hans Carossa” by Rainer Maria Rilke, Muzot, February 7, 1924, tr. […]
