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14 Feb 2021
La Chronique Scandaleuse 2: The Case of Denise Poncher and Her Vision of Death
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Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death Illumination from The Poncher Hours (c. 1500) by the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse (Tempera ...
13 Feb 2021
La Chronique Scandaleuse 1: The Case of Claude Le Petit
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The French phrase chronique scandaleuse was one that captured my youthful imagination back in the Blind Cupid days and whilst plans for...
21 Jan 2021
The Filth and the Fury (Or Never Mind the Sex Pistols - Here's the Borborites)
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O fangeuse grandeur! sublime ignominie! I. I've always been fond of a bit of base materialism, thus my fascination with the works...
9 Feb 2019
On Learning to Laugh at Everything with Larry David, Georges Bataille and D. H. Lawrence
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Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock I. Everything's Funny As I said in a recent post, one of the things that the phrase torpe...
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31 Jan 2019
Orwell Versus Dalí
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You can tell a lot about a man by his moustache ... I. One of the things I like about Salvador Dalí is that, like Bataille, he rea...
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23 Dec 2018
Heads You Lose: Reflections on Craniopagus Parasiticus (with Reference to the Case of Manar Maged)
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Manar Maged displaying Islaam, her parasitic twin head, seemingly with pride and tender affection I. Two heads are ...
8 Nov 2018
The Colour Purple
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I. On the Excretory Origin of an Exquisite Colour My birthstone, as an Aquarian, is amethyst. And so I have an astrological attachm...
21 Sept 2018
On the Anguished Lyricism of E. M. Cioran
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Emil Cioran - crazy hair, crazy guy! I. From out of the blue comes a book in the post: a copy of E. M. Cioran's ...
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20 Jun 2017
Entomophilia 2: Crush Fetish
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Crush20 by Unknown 1886 (2017) deviantart.com Although some men (and, let's be honest, it is mostly men) enjoy watching women...
17 Oct 2016
Floraphilia Redux (With Reference to the Case of Rupert Birkin)
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Floraphilia YouTube (2009) Flowering plants don't just grow in soil: they are also rooted in our hearts and blossom in ...
23 Sept 2016
In Memory of The Woman Who Rode Away
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Kate Millett famously condemns 'The Woman Who Rode Away' as an insane pornographic fantasy - which, in some ways, it is. ...
21 Sept 2016
On Orgasm and the Will to Merger (Another Thanatological Fragment)
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Man can find his individual isolation or discontinuity hard to bear. Thus he often seeks primal unity, or a return to universal one...
22 Jul 2016
Post 666: Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
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As numerical phobias go, fear of 666 - the number of the Beast - is certainly right up there within the cultural imagination; perhaps ...
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18 Feb 2016
'A' Level Greek (with Reference to the Case of Lady Chatterley)
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Constance Chatterley (2012) An image created by the digital artist Brian J. Davis using commercially available composite sketch ...
9 May 2015
Sottorealism: Beneath Contempt ...?
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Photo of Aris Kalaizis (2010) kalaizis.com Bataille's philosophical and political critique of the elevated, the ideal, and, in...
25 Apr 2015
Fleurs du Mal
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Obscenity (2015) Photo by Stephen Alexander The sight of a flower always gives a certain superficial joy in the appearance of thin...
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