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From: umptyre-AT-riseup.net
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Re: bataille



> i dont think was necessarily 'influenced' by him in the
> sense of him being a predecessor.

> anyway, he is good for
> oneliners,


1. bataille's poems & stories are nothing to spit at.
(see mark spitzer's recent & forthcoming translations.)

2. his post-ww2 writings on surrealism are interesting.
by this time he was on good terms with breton, who once
publicly referred to bataille as "master" before hearing
him lecture. (some see the two of them as the yin &
yang of surrealism, bataille being the dark side of
the mountain.)

3. foucault explicitly cites him as an "essential"
influence in REMARKS ON MARX. it was thru bataille
that he read nietzsche. bataille, was one of
"the writers who permitted [him] to free [him]self
from others who had formed [him] during the
university education..." (p. 44)

in reacting against sartre's heroic
"subject which restored meaning to the world,"
foucault and his buddies looked to bataille's
"limit experiences" to explore the boundaries
of the self & its "decomposition."

4. bataille was such a figure in lacan's life
that roudinesco gives him a whole chapter
in her biography of lacan! (has anyone
read that one?)

...

contrary,
- puya



   

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