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By: Headsman

Headsman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:35:48 +0000

Thanks, both — wiser heads than mine on Bataille by far. I think it’s this book you mean, Sal?

By: Sal Herzog

Sal Herzog — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:59:08 +0000

Fascinating. Check out this book on Bataille- by Stuart Kendall for a good, albeit sensational, introduction

By: egil skallagrimsson

egil skallagrimsson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:30:04 +0000

one more. i’m looking at the picture and finding myself mortified at all the other people in it. imagine if you will, just for a minute, being one of the people slicing him up.

it’s hardly bearable just in the imagining.

staggering, really. the whole thing.

By: egil skallagrimsson

egil skallagrimsson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:26:59 +0000

outstanding. really nice catch on the Bataille angle, here. I’ve not read Sontag on Bataille, and more’s the pity, since she captures the essence of the Bataille problematic in a couple of pithy sentences, a problematic, as she duly notes, that is utterly alien to so much that is modern. the result of this alterity (or as mark c tayolr would have it, altarity — note the religious pun) is that most people misunderstand bataille in critical ways that vitiate much of what they have to say about him.

and the class issues around this execution would not have been lost on bataille, either, by the way.

and thanks for the (quite appropriate) nod on sebastian. the link here with bataille is utterly appropriate there, as well — what with the eroticization of sebastian, and of course that sense of bliss in the midst of suffering. christ is of course the archetype here, for christians.

one other note in this rambling comment post — i suggest a contrast with the witch subjected to burning in Bergman’s “Seventh Seal,” and the (film’s) hero’s interpretation of the look on *her* face. but that means you’ll have to go watch it.