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“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
― The Bataille Reader
― The Bataille Reader
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but
what in each case is given. Thus hell is not
something that awaits us, but this life here and now.”
― The Arcades Project
what in each case is given. Thus hell is not
something that awaits us, but this life here and now.”
― The Arcades Project
“People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.”
― A Woman of No Importance
― A Woman of No Importance
“There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.”
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
― Age of Anger: A History of the Present
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