By Jesús R. Velasco As Rosalind Morris suggested, Bataille “talks about communication as continuity of loss.” Indeed, one of the central moments in which he theorizes about communication is when he glosses the Nietzschean fragment “The crucified Christ is the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Reparation. Chance. Labyrinth. The insightful presentations of Denis Hollier, Rosalind Morris, and Anthony Vidler focused our attention on these three key concepts in Bataille’s writings on Nietzsche. By reflecting more on the three concepts, it may… Continue Reading
By Rosalind C. Morris “…[Often], we are … a play of obscure representations, and our understanding is unable to save itself from the absurdities into which they have placed it, even though it recognizes them as illusions.… The power of… Continue Reading
By Rosalind C. Morris “…[Often], we are … a play of obscure representations, and our understanding is unable to save itself from the absurdities into which they have placed it, even though it recognizes them as illusions.… The power of… Continue Reading
By Anthony Vidler Nietzsche’s aphorisms on architecture, its loss of rhetorical meaning in the modern world, were influential on Bataille’s ascriptions of the dissolution of architecture in Documents, and were pursued analytically by Denis Hollier in his book La Prise… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt At the very same moment that Martin Heidegger began lecturing on Nietzsche at the University of Freiberg in the winter of 1936-1937, Georges Bataille and a handful of his closest intellectual collaborators—including the artist, André Masson,… Continue Reading