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Showing posts with label bataille. Show all posts
24 Nov 2025

Behold the Sausage (Or Incipit Parodia): A Foolish Response to Simon Solomon

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The Three Jokers  (SA/2025)   'I have a terrible fear   I shall one day be pronounced holy ...  I do not want to be a saint, rather even...
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 1: Propositions 1-120

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  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...
5 Jul 2024

Dark Enlightenment 3: On the Zombie Apocalypse

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  'Democracy is as close to a precise negation of civilization  as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into  murde...
12 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part One)

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(Polity Press, 2024)     I.    The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...
24 Nov 2022

No Hugging, No Learning (Torpedo the Ark 10th Anniversary Post)

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    I.    This post - post number 1977 - marks the 10th anniversary of Torpedo the Ark [1] and, fear not, there's no Elvis, Beatles or ...
17 Aug 2022

B is for ... Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard

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B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...
3 Nov 2021

Reflections on The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han (Part 1: From Melancholia to Bare Life)

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The MIT Press (2017)     I.    Neue deutsche Denke are a bit like buses; you wait ages for one to come along, then two or three arrive on t...