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Les Nuits de France Culture
Georges Bataille, l'hérétique 2/8 : Georges Bataille : "Dans le désordre de la pensée naît la poésie"

Les Nuits de France Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2026 31:48


durée : 00:31:48 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - "Qui êtes-vous ? Georges Bataille" est une rencontre émouvante avec l'écrivain Georges Bataille dont la voix sereine raconte son enfance ennuyeuse et devenu adulte son désir de détruire tout but dans la vie. - équipe : Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster, Rafik Zénine, Vincent Abouchar, Emily Vallat, Hassane M'Béchour, INA Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Artes
Em Avignon, Carolina Bianchi acende "Uma Luz Cordial” atrelada à violência e ao prazer

Artes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2026 20:20


A encenadora, actriz e escritora brasileira Carolina Bianchi regressou ao Festival de Avignon para estrear “Uma Luz Cordial”, o último capítulo da "Trilogia Cadela Força" aqui iniciada em 2023. Esta é “uma luz atrelada à expressão da violência”, mas também à "expressão do prazer", conta-nos a artista que neste espectáculo confronta o público com “o enigma” que atravessa a peça e que envolve teatro, literatura e sexualidade. Carolina Bianchi e a sua companhia Cara de Cavalo vão também fazer dois dias de maratona teatral de 10 horas com as três peças seguidas da trilogia, um gesto movido pelo desejo de “aventura total”. Carolina Bianchi encerrou a trilogia iniciada em Avignon com “Uma Luz Cordial”, um espectáculo que leva para o palco a violência do acto de escrever e o mistério da sua própria sexualidade. Esta é “uma luz atrelada à expressão da violência”, mas também “à expressão do prazer”, conta-nos a artista que foi buscar o título da peça a um poema que lhe é fundamental: “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”, de Emily Dickinson, em que a imagem de uma arma carregada lhe evoca o potencial explosivo de uma poeta a escrever. Além do novo espectáculo, Carolina Bianchi e a sua companhia Cara de Cavalo retomam toda a trilogia nesta 80ª edição do Festival de Avignon e o público poderá ver, no mesmo dia, “A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela” [que a revelou aos palcos europeus e com o qual conquistou o Leão de Prata da Bienal de Veneza em 2025], “The Brotherhood” e “Uma Luz Cordial”. A maratona teatral de 12 e 13 de Julho, na Opéra Grand Avignon, dura diariamente cerca de dez horas, um gesto movido pelo desejo de “aventura total”, em referência à "obra de arte como aventura total” do artista Alberto Greco, de quem também fala em palco. “A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela”, o primeiro capítulo, arrasta o público para o inferno das violações e dos feminicídios. “The Brotherhood”, o segundo capítulo, mergulha-nos nas alianças masculinas que têm dominado a história da arte e do teatro e verbaliza o fascínio por esses mestres da arte e da violência. Agora, “Uma Luz Cordial”, o terceiro capítulo, tenta fintar a brutalidade da criação artística e faz a literatura irromper em todo o espaço cénico. Diluem-se novamente fronteiras entre teatro e poesia, entre ficção e real, entre autor e alter ego. Carolina Bianchi vai desaparecendo de cena para reaparecer “nas vozes” de autoras como Hilda Hilst e Emily Dickinson. Não se pense que este último capítulo vem curar alguma dor porque, ela avisa em palco, “a dor não passa” e “não há salvação”. Há, no entanto, uma luz ao fundo do túnel, a tal “luz cordial”, ainda que corresponda ao disparo de uma arma no poema “My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun”. O teatro radical de Carolina Bianchi, que deixa enigmas e não dá respostas, que leva para o palco a complexidade e a perplexidade do mundo, que leva à tona tanto a parte maldita quanto a parte poética da criação, está no Festival de Avignon até 12 de Julho. RFI: Como é que nos pode apresentar este terceiro capítulo que fecha a trilogia “Cadela Força”? Carolina Bianchi, Autora e encenadora da trilogia teatral “Cadela Força”: “Uma Luz Cordial é um trabalho que vai na direcção da escrita, sobre o acto de escrever. Então, ele é, na verdade, eu me colocando ali também, nesta travessia deste espectáculo, como a escrita em si, o meu corpo está muito mais fora de cena do que nos outros trabalhos da trilogia. Acho que também tem essa questão: a de uma escritora que está desaparecendo, que está se tornando pura escrita. Por tocar nesse assunto da escrita, acho que forma um triângulo muito importante com outras duas coisas, que é a imaginação e a sexualidade. Aí, para mim, surge uma equação do enigma desta terceira parte, que é o que atravessa este último capítulo, estas três palavras que não se conseguem mais dissociar, a escrita também como uma possível expressão da sexualidade e é não só falar sobre a sexualidade, mas a escrita como expressão de uma sexualidade. Acho que, sobretudo, é também muito importante dizer: a literatura como forma de prazer.” Há uma poesia de Emily Dickinson essencial na peça, que fala em "uma luz cordial" em que "a arma tem o poder de matar, mas não de morrer". Por que chamou ”Uma Luz Cordial” ao terceiro capítulo? “Esse é o meu poema preferido da vida. Emily Dickinson traz uma possibilidade de ler esse poema - porque é o que eu digo também no trabalho: é difícil chegar a uma conclusão sobre como analisar um poema de Emily Dickinson. E essa é a coisa mais bonita sobre essa autora, que trabalha com enigmas, com espaços de puro mistério na sua escrita, na sua poesia. Acho que essa imagem de uma arma carregada que, para mim, pode ser a imagem da poeta a escrever, é uma das imagens mais bonitas que a poesia já trouxe para o meu imaginário. Aí vem essa frase ‘Uma luz cordial' que está no poema e ela essa sentença para descrever o momento do disparo da arma. Então, o tempo todo ela está trazendo nesse poema esses dois lados de uma arma que também é uma arma que é uma expressão de violência e, ao mesmo tempo, quando o disparo é descrito como uma luz cordial isso também traz outra imagem sobre essa arma, que é uma imagem de vida, uma imagem de sorriso, uma imagem de prazer, uma imagem de iluminação que é muito forte.” Em “A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela” a principal inspiração era a artista italiana Pippa Bacca, violada e assassinada em trabalho. Em “The Brotherhood”, inspirava-se também na dramaturga Sarah Kane que dizia que “não há amor sem violência” e que explorava os temas do amor e da violência. Agora, as suas musas são Hilda Hilst e Emily Dickinson. Porquê falar através da voz destas artistas mulheres e porquê levar de forma tão franca a literatura para o teatro? “Tem uma coisa que eu acho que é importante dizer. A Pippa Bacca, para mim, ela não foi tanto uma inspiração como a minha relação com a Sarah Kane, talvez com outras dessas autoras. Acho que a Pipa Baca tinha uma coisa ali de um mistério do qual eu precisava, era quase a atracção de um detective que eu acho que é um pouco diferente. Nestes dois outros trabalhos, quando Sarah Kane aparece, quando vem a Emily, a Hilda e outras vozes também, para mim tem um aspecto de um encontro que é um encontro onde você se sente pertencente a um lugar ou onde você tenta pertencer a um lugar onde encontra essas outras autoras, onde você se sente menos sozinha, onde você tem um lugar onde se reconhece numa história. Acho que isso acontece muito com a Sarah Kane na ‘Brotherhood', alguém que fez espectáculos extremamente violentos, que sofreu também muitas consequências, boas e ruins, dessa dramaturgia sem concessões que ela fazia. Agora, nesta terceira, o ponto onde a coisa ainda fica mais profunda é a questão de elas serem alter egos. Quando eu falo dessa escritora que morreu e que agora aguarda nesse outro espaço essa hora de voltar, para mim, esse virar escrita também significa dissolver-se em alter egos. A minha voz já não é essa voz central, a voz está espalhada, está tudo espalhado, estilhaçado. Tudo ali é duplo. Também vem essa ideia da fantasmagoria em si, que eu também falo nos outros capítulos. Para mim, essa fantasmagoria chega no seu ápice na trilogia, que é a ideia de que nem sequer essa voz é a voz que agora é a mais ouvida. Essa voz precisa de se dissolver em alter egos e o da Emily Dickinson - que ocupa um lugar muito importante na minha vida, na minha história, com a literatura, com a escrita - aparecem também nesse chamado para seguir escrevendo.” Também interroga o próprio sacrifício da escrita e a violência que é escrever? “Sim, interroga, mas também é um lugar de prazer. Para mim, é muito importante afirmar essa palavra neste último capítulo, que eu acho que também é uma palavra que pouca gente esperava que fosse aparecer aqui. Há uma questão de associação entre a literatura e o prazer e, por isso, também a gente está associando com a questão da sexualidade, porque eu estou trazendo uma sexualidade que também se está colocando como uma grande desorganização, como um grande enigma o tempo todo. Aqui, isso está mais endereçado do que nunca. Então, é um corpo que está ali fervendo, que é o corpo da escritora, que é o corpo da escrita, que é um corpo que também está revelando uma expressão sexual muito forte.” Por isso é que traz esse corpo colectivo da sexualidade para o palco, com os actores da sua companhia Cara de Cavalo? “Sim, sim, porque eu acho que tem ali mesmo uma pergunta sobre como se manifesta essa sexualidade no espectáculo, sem ser a sexualidade de estar atrelada ao real ou o sexo real no palco ou a representação. Não me interessa essa pergunta. Nesta peça, para mim, interessa-me falar como manifestar essa sexualidade que está atrelada ao acto de escrever. É uma sexualidade que vem da palavra e uma sexualidade que está atrelada à leitura. Ela é uma sexualidade que é o tabu da leitura, que limites são esses também que a literatura explode o tempo todo e que para o teatro é mais complicado. Então, acho que tem uma tensão aí entre teatro e literatura, entre o acto de ler e de você também não poder escapar dessa literatura. Acho que tem muitas coisas aí onde esse fio vai dando um nó mesmo.” Nessa “dramaturgia sem concessões”, em que leva também a sexualidade para o palco, recorre a uma obra que a escritora Hilda Hilst escreveu para fintar o pedido do editor que queria uma obra que vendesse muito. A Carolina coloca em cena uma marioneta a representar uma criança manipulada por dois adultos e durante 20 minutos ela fala da sua prostituição infantil. É uma das cenas mais fortes desta peça. Porquê esta cena? “Porque o meu desejo era colocar um livro dentro da peça. Ali a gente tem um livro que é ‘O Caderno Rosa de Lori Lamby' e acho que tem uma questão que ainda traz neste livro particular que é uma resposta a uma determinada maneira que o mercado editorial trabalha, que eu acho muito forte, porque ele é um livro sobre escrita. É uma menina que escreve o tempo todo e é o que a marioneta faz também em cena, ela escreve o tempo todo. Então, uma menina que escreve o tempo todo, inspirada pelo pai, que é um escritor que tem problemas também para vender os seus próprios livros. Inspirada pelo que ela ouve das conversas ao redor, das coisas que lê, ela começa a escrever esse relato. Acho que tem uma coisa que eu acho muito bonita que é, primeiro, uma questão do tabu, um tabu enorme que é a imaginação sexual de uma criança, porque não é só uma questão de abuso, acho que tem ali uma questão ou outra que é o que uma criança imagina quando escreve e isso é uma coisa que toca todo o mundo. Todos nós já fomos crianças. Todos nós sabemos que é uma imaginação que ainda não está tão moldada pelos limites, pelos tabus. Ela narra uma questão extrema nesse contacto dessa imaginação, tem um caminho extremo que a Hilda percorre, porque ela sabe que isso vai provocar algo ali, nesse tabu, com o jeito que a gente percebe essas situações. Ao mesmo tempo, tem uma coisa da escrita dela que é extremamente poética, que tem humor, que é uma coisa que você vê nos outros livros dela que eu acho muito importante. Acho que tem uma coisa desse choque também que isso provoca, que eu acho que é curioso também, que vem na cena seguinte mais explicitamente, que é uma cena que é “O Caderno do Cu do Sapo Liu Liu”, onde a gente tem o inverso, que é o grande escritor que escreve coisas terríveis, violentíssimas e é considerado um génio. Ele é considerado um Rimbaud. A gente está aqui na França, a terra de Georges Bataille, de Marquês de Sade, e é interessante como Hilda Hilst é tão chocante.” É por ser mulher? “Eu acho que o facto de ser mulher também faz ser mais chocante. O facto de ela ser mulher, o facto de ela ter escrito esse livro quando ela tinha 60 anos, mas eu acho que não vem a ser uma questão para mim pessoalmente. Eu não sei se isso é uma questão para quem lê isso e fica completamente perturbado, mas para mim, as questões dela ali, em relação à literatura, aos não limites que a literatura pode operar, são muito interessantes para mim.” Apesar da violência relatada por si e pelas mulheres de que fala, apesar de toda a vulnerabilidade, a trilogia chama-se Cadela Força. Agora que temos a trilogia completa em palco, por que é que a chamou assim? “Essas duas palavras não têm um significado específico quando colocadas em par. Elas não estão nem se dando adjectivo no português brasileiro, elas são palavras que não se estão completando, elas são realmente duas palavras jogadas ali. Acho que tem uma coisa sobre essa sonoridade que elas produzem, sobre as milhares de imagens que essas duas palavras podem produzir em contacto com os materiais da peça. E elas também têm um enigma delas, um segredo.” Na peça diz que “não há salvação”, que “não passa a dor”. Lemos que “o teatro é uma armadilha, que a literatura é uma armadilha e que talvez ainda esteja na mala do carro”, em referência à violação que sofreu e que conta no primeiro capítulo da trilogia. Quem viu os capítulos um e dois poderia esperar uma espécie de salvação no capítulo três ou, pelo menos, que o teatro fosse uma forma de reconstrução para si e, através de si, para outras mulheres. Não foi? “Não. E acho que quem esperava isso de mim assim estava muito equivocado. Para mim, é impossível pensar no teatro como salvação. Eu acho que já estou anunciando isso desde o princípio. Esse lugar de que o artista é alguém que precisa conceder esperança à sociedade, respostas à sociedade, conclusões de perguntas que são impossíveis, é um delírio e uma alucinação porque os artistas não têm essa responsabilidade. O que me interessa é justamente esse mistério do teatro. O teatro começa como um ritual dionisíaco, os rituais dionisíacos eram cheios de violência, cheios dessa violência poética que opera no fundamento da história do teatro. Então, eu acho que o teatro é um lugar onde ele precisa operar na chave do mistério, da instabilidade, não como salvação de nada.” Nas entrevistas que fizemos, em 2023 e em 2025, sobre os capítulos anteriores da trilogia, dizia-nos que “A Noiva e o Boa Noite Cinderela” falava da “antecâmara do inferno já com um pé no inferno”, que “Brotherhood” era “acordar no purgatório” e tentar perceber o que significa “situar-se no teatro depois de voltar do inferno”. E neste terceiro capítulo? “Esse capítulo, a gente chega na citação do 'Paraíso' de Dante Alighieri, esse momento onde tem uma imagem do paraíso que é muito linda, em que ele começa a ver esses espíritos, essas imagens de luz. Quase como chega um ponto ali onde, depois de ele se entender incapaz de seguir escrevendo, ele já se perdeu ali do Virgílio que encontrou uma outra musa que é a Beatriz que agora tem a palavra. Acho que tem alguma coisa nessa transformação onde a luz aparece, para mim, atrelada a uma expressão de violência que está no poema da Emily Dickinson, que também abre esse lugar de onde também há esse prazer da literatura que aparece. Esse lugar onde a literatura vai dominando tudo, onde essa ficção vai dominando tudo. É essa conexão que eu faço com o paraíso, com esse lugar onde a violência não pára, onde a violência não se resolve, mas ela chega a outras formas.” Não há salvação, mas há uma luz cordial? “Mas lembre-se que à luz cordial é o disparo da arma.” Fecha a trilogia no sítio onde a começou, no Festival de Avignon. Mostra o terceiro capítulo, mas também os dois anteriores. Já alguma vez representou dez horas seguidas e por que é que decidiu fazer algo quase sobre-humano? “Nunca representei por dez horas seguidas. Sobretudo, acho que nada me teria preparado, mesmo se tivesse feito. Não, nada me teria preparado para fazer isso, porque acho que essas dez horas são dez horas muito específicas, muito desse universo onde há aí uma consequência de se fazer algo depois do primeiro capítulo e eu acho que é isso que a gente vai estudar juntos. O que é que isso muda na nossa leitura de espectáculos que as pessoas já viram? Como eles vão ler esses espectáculos agora com esse efeito presente e contínuo? O que acontece? O que acontece com o teatro? O que acontece com a performance? O que acontece com a literatura quando se leva isso, essa experiência, que é uma experiência extrema? Tem uma frase num dos textos de ‘Uma Luz Cordial', onde eu estou-me referindo a um outro artista que é o Alberto Greco, um artista argentino, e ele diz que acredita na obra de arte como aventura total. Para mim, isso resume muito bem este gesto. Então, para si, é uma obra de arte total? “Não, aventura total. Não sei se é uma obra de arte total o que nós fazemos, mas eu acredito que o desejo de fazer essa obra tem a ver com esse desejo pela aventura total.” A trilogia ajuda a pensar o impensável. Verbaliza a violência, apropria-se da linguagem da violência para desconstruir o sistema em que ela se baseia. Ao fazê-lo, também não alimenta o sistema em que “Somos todos brotherhood”? Não há maneira de quebrar o ciclo? “Acho que não. Eu não saberia dizer. Acho que não. Acho que esse ciclo talvez vai ser um ciclo que vai demorar muito para ser quebrado. Onde estamos agora no mundo, o que a gente está vendo acontecendo ao redor do mundo, esse conservadorismo extremo, esse fascismo extremo que está em toda parte, que está no mundo das artes também, eu não vejo ainda uma saída desse ciclo. Sinto muito., mas espero que exista um dia. Não sei se eu vou estar aqui para assistir isso, mas…” Foram vários anos a escrever, a interpretar, a representar, a sofrer também com esta trilogia que agora fecha. Olhando para trás, o que é que representou para si e o que gostaria que ela deixasse junto de quem a viu? “Eu acho que é uma coisa enorme. Mesmo assim, eu nunca vou conseguir, talvez nem nesta encarnação, ter distanciamento suficiente para ver tudo o que isso representou na minha vida, na vida das pessoas que trabalham comigo ou ainda de quem acompanhou o trabalho. Agora eu estou muito próxima, ainda estou muito aqui para entender qualquer coisa sobre isso. Eu sei que as mudanças que isso faz na minha vida são imensas. A minha vida foi completamente transformada e transtornada por esse trabalho, mas eu sinto isso assim, eu sinto que eu estou aqui, eu estou dentro dele ainda. Talvez no ano que vem eu consiga já ter um pouco mais de distanciamento para entender, porque agora eu só consigo dizer que isso mexeu em tudo. E eu estou ainda no meio desse furacão.” O furacão que também afectou o público e, se calhar, a história do teatro contemporâneo? “Tomara que sim. Eu nunca consigo afirmar muito esse tipo de coisas. Não sei. Tomara que sim. Tomara que tenha afectado muita gente. Eu acho fez algo, com certeza, com este contexto, mas eu preciso de distanciamento mesmo para entender o que foi feito, o que mexeu.”

The Nietzsche Podcast
144: Georges Bataille, part 2 - 1944 Diaries

The Nietzsche Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2026 104:22


"You, whoever you are, reading me - take your own chance. Just as, at the moment of writing, I gamble with you." The much-awaited conclusion to season six is here! The year is 1944, and we follow Georges Bataille through the months of February to August as he recounts the end of the Nazi occupation of France, while writing of his daily encounters, his inner experiences, first-hand accounts of the war, mad ramblings and poems - and astute, if sometimes confusing, commentary on the work of Nietzsche. In this episode we will explore the will to chance, immanence vs. transcendence, desire as "time-being", and the possibility of affirming desire in itself and for itself, having fully seen through the lie of every "end" or "goal" presented to us by the mad pursuit of passion. The Gay Science readthrough episodes coming soon!

The Nietzsche Podcast
143: Georges Bataille, part 1 - On Nietzsche

The Nietzsche Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2026 114:09


The two-part conclusion of season six begins. We're delving into the work of Georges Bataille, with a focus on his book, "On Nietzsche". Bataille is one of the most interesting intellectual nodes of 20th century philosophy. For a long time, his work was obscure in the English-speaking world, often eclipsed by those he influenced, such as Derrida and Foucault. However, among the postmodernists, Bataille takes Nietzsche as his closest companion, and struggles most fiercely with him. On Nietzsche is written during the war years, and is a very strange book that defies categorization. We'll talk about the background of the text, Bataille's life, the secret society Acephale, and the main ideas in Summit and Decline. In the next episode, we'll discuss 1944 diaries with a focus on the philosophical ideas therein.

Culture en direct
Adrien Borel, le psychanalyste qui écoutait son siècle

Culture en direct

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2026 58:41


durée : 00:58:41 - Les émissions culturelles de France Culture - par : Marie Richeux - Adrien Borel, psychanalyste notamment de Georges Bataille, fut le témoin des années les plus électriques du XXe siècle. Pourtant, son nom est resté dans l'ombre. Mathilde Girard le réhabilite à partir d'un roman d'écoute où se croisent rêves, sexe, désirs révolutionnaires et ombres du fascisme. - réalisation : Jeanne Aléos, Mathilde Wagman, Marianne Chassort, Alexandre Alajbegovic, Cyril Marchan, Vivien Demeyère, Julie Gastal - invités : Mathilde Girard Philosophe, psychanalyste et écrivaine Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

The Nietzsche Podcast
Untimely Reflections #46: Stuart Kendall - On Georges Bataille

The Nietzsche Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2026 80:10


Today, I'm speaking with independent scholar, translator, and lecturer, Stuart Kendall. Stuart is responsible for helping to bring new translations of Georges Bataille's work into English, and he joined me for a conversation about Georges Bataille and his influence from Friedrich Nietzsche. We discussed the notion of expenditure, the metaphor of the potlach, the will to chance, war as an object of meditation, and the enigmatic work, On Nietzsche. Future episode's on Bataille's On Nietzsche will soon arrive as regular episodes of the podcast (in fact, as the two-part conclusion to season six), but here I was interested in introducing Bataille and the background of this text, which will hopefully be of help to any prospective reader who opens its pages and wonders just what the hell is going on. This conversation was intended to be accessible to all those who have never read Bataille or encountered his ideas, and thus to provide an entrypoint for the listeners before we tackle the book in earnest. Enjoy, and may your hearts overflow with generosity.

Acid Horizon
Bataille's 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability (Full Episode Unlocked!)

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2026 67:56


AHRC Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat does Georges Bataille's Guilty reveal about war, time, and the unstable ground of thought itself? In this episode, Craig and Adam speak with Stuart Kendall about Bataille's confrontation with catastrophe, the “privileged instant,” and the strange oscillation between order and excess in his writing. The conversation explores how Guilty stages a meditation on war, nonknowledge, and the limits of philosophy at the edge of historical disaster. We also discuss Kendall's essay “The Exacerbation of Instabilities,” featured in the Acéphalous Compendium, and preview his upcoming course on Bataille through the Acid Horizon Research Commons.Support the showSupport the podcast:AHRCCurrent classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.comAHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archivesSubmit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.comMore LinksWebsite: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastBoycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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freie-radios.net (Radio Freies Sender Kombinat, Hamburg (FSK))

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2026 0:21


Mein Gast ist Morten Paul. Er ist Literatur-& Kulturwissenschaftler und arbeitet am Germanistischen Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, wo er zu den Verbindungen von Freud' scher Psychoanalyse & Marx'scher Kritik der politischen Ökonomie forscht & lehrt. Morten ist Herausgeber des Sammelbands "Was war Faschismustheorie?", der sehr bald im Verbrecherverlag erscheint: „Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die über Faschismus nicht nur reden, sondern herausfinden wollen, wie dieses Reden beschaffen sein muss, um zu einem antifaschistischen zu werden." Mit Elena Stingl hat erdas Nachwort zu der Neuauflage von Georges Batailles 'Die psychologische Struktur des Faschismus' von 1933/34 geschrieben (Matthes&Seitz). Beide Bücher sind Thema der Sendung. „Angesichts des oft ungläubigen Erschreckens ob einer möglichen Wiederkehr des Faschismus an der Macht scheint es hilfreich, sich die angesichts seines frühen Weges eben dorthin angestellten Überlegungen ins Gedächtnis zu rufen. Es ist frappierend, wie genau viele der alten Beschreibungen die Gegenwart trefffen. Nicht abgeklärt sein und darüber zynisch werden, ohne zugleich wie das Kaninchen vor der Schlange zu erstarren oder sich empört einfach abzuwenden, bleibt die Herausforderung für die Faschismustheorie der Gegenwart. (...) Baue deine Theorie so, dass sie die Anziehungs- & Fliehkräfte des Faschismus ernst nimmt, aber seine Bewirtschaftung des Ressentiments, seine Mechanismen der Entmenschlichung, seine Hierarchisierung des Lebens & seine Feier der Vernichtung nicht reproduziert, sondern sie unterbricht. In dieser Unterbrechung setzt sie die darin gebundenen + auf Zerstörung gerichtete Kräfte für eine alternative Gestaltung von Welt frei, die dann ihre eigene Dynamik entfalten kann." Diese Aufgabe besprechen wir ausgiebig. In diesem Teil schauen wir auf einige solcher Bruchmomente und Morten beleuchtet den geschichtlichen Hintergrund, vor dem insbesondere Wilhelm Reich, Ernst Bloch und Georges Bataille ihre Faschismustheorien entwickelten. Wir beschäftigen uns mit dem Homogenen & Heterogenen in Batailles Theorie. Die Gegenwart läuft wie immer mit. Quellen und Playlist s.u. Teil 2 abrufbar auf: https://www.freie-radios.net/142423 Darin u.a.: Ob und wie lassen sich das faschistische und das emanzipatorische Heterogene voneinander unterscheiden? Was hat die kritische Theorie damit zu tun? Und: Wir tanzen in der Gegenwart ohne Zukunft kopflos Pogo und fordern mehr Demokratie.

Hermitix
Bataille: Expenditure, Enjoyment, Ecstasy with Erin K. Stapleton

Hermitix

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2026 74:35


Erin Stapleton researchs destruction, archival imperfection, material volatility, resistance and ambiguity in digital and visual cultures, identity and media. Her current project, Catastrophic Loss, investigates how colonial logics continue to inform everyday digital media cultures and practices, the fragility of these systems, and the losses they threaten and produce.We discuss her book, The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media: A Philosophy of Expenditure After Georges Bataille, which was published in 2022 by Amsterdam University Press (and published in paperback by Routledge in 2025). In it, she takes destruction as the founding operation of culture and trace it through philosophy, the media of September 11 and disaster films, end-of-the-world narratives, execution and eroticism, before addressing the effects of the displacement of linear destruction on the culture and media produced in digital systems. In other words, it's got sex, death, explosions… and computers. And an unexpected amount of Walter Benjamin for some reason. And a joke that will only be funny to people who are intimately familiar with Australian slang and Georges Bataille.She completed her PhD with the London Graduate School at Kingston University, and my other qualifications at the University of Melbourne, where she now teaches in Media and Communications.Stapleton's site: https://drerinkstapleton.wordpress.com/Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intoxication-Destruction-Theory-Culture-Media/dp/9463724532--- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Mirante
Relações de poder na Psicanálise

Mirante

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2026 85:15


A reflexão de Georges Bataille sobre o erotismo nos ajuda a pensar que a sexualidade toca sempre zonas de limite, interdição, transgressão e excesso. Talvez por isso mesmo,quando a sexualidade não é atravessada por uma elaboração ética, ela possa deslizar para formas de domínio, captura e objetificação do outro. Casos que nos chocam por seu caráter extraordinário também revelam algo de ordinário:cenas que se repetem em muitos espaços da vida social. E a psicanálise, como instituição, não está fora disso.Hoje, quando falamos em sexualidade, os temas do abuso, do assédio e da violência se impõem com força. Ao pensar, por exemplo, em casos como o de Epstein, falamos de umaarticulação estrutural entre sexualidade e poder.Neste episódio, queremos abrir um espaço de conversa sobre aquilo que o campo analítico muitas vezes hesita em nomear: abuso de poder, hierarquias de gênero, autoridade institucional, silêncio e responsabilidade.Para esta conversa, recebemos a filósofa e psicanalista Natália Leon e a psicanalista Juliana Lang.

The Farm Podcast Mach II
No Humans Allowed: The Philosophy of Nick Land Part I w/ Vincent Le & Recluse

The Farm Podcast Mach II

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2026 73:15


Nick Land, Accelerationism, Neo-reaction, Curtis Yarvin, the Nick Land Renaissance, support for Land among Big Tech, the two phases of Land's thought, Land's early perception of capitalism, Marxism, noumena, Immanuel Kant, Land's take on Kant, werewolves, how Land views werewolves, Platonism, how Land perceives matter, matter as a noumena, matter as a great unknown, libidinal Materialism, Freud, Nietzsche, Land's view of art as an insurrectionary act, the Muses, Gilles de Rais, Georges Bataille, Land and Bataille, John Douglas, profiling. de Rais' retreat into a fantasy worldVincent's substackWhere to order Unknown LandsMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Acid Horizon
Patreon Preview: Bataille's 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 14:04


*Patreon Preview* To access the rest of this discussion, becoming paid subscriber on our Patreon page, or enroll in 'Formless', which begins March 11th. Links are below.What does Georges Bataille's Guilty reveal about war, time, and the unstable ground of thought itself? In this episode, Craig and Adam speak with Stuart Kendall about Bataille's confrontation with catastrophe, the “privileged instant,” and the strange oscillation between order and excess in his writing. The conversation explores how Guilty stages a meditation on war, nonknowledge, and the limits of philosophy at the edge of historical disaster. We also discuss Kendall's essay “The Exacerbation of Instabilities,” featured in the Acéphalous Compendium, and preview his upcoming course on Bataille through the Acid Horizon Research Commons.Support the showSupport the podcast:AHRCCurrent classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.comAHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archivesSubmit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.comMore LinksWebsite: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

In Bed With The Right
Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights

In Bed With The Right

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 66:09


Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In this episode they explore the gender politics of the novel, of this adaptation and what it says about the fate of romance fiction in the 2020s.Here are some of the texts we refer to in the discussion or used in preparing for it:Elizabeth Hardwick, "Working Girls: The Brontës"Georges Bataille, "Literature and Evil"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "The Madwoman in the Attic"

Therapy for Guys
Bataille as Radical Theologian

Therapy for Guys

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2026 13:11


In this episode, I explore whether Georges Bataille can be read as a radical theologian precisely because he refuses to save God.Drawing from Allan Stoekl's essay “Bataille, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Death of God,” I contrast Teilhard's vision of convergence and Omega with Bataille's insistence that completion ends in rupture — that absolute knowledge collapses into nonknowledge.Although I no longer identify as a Christian, I remain drawn to radical theology. Here, I wrestle with a tension I feel even within progressive theology: after rejecting a literal deity, do we still preserve a highest ground — a metaphysical guarantor — under another name?Bataille's atheism forces me to ask whether a truly radical theology must relinquish even that.Not comfort.But courage.

Therapy for Guys
Bataille on Religion

Therapy for Guys

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 11:57


In this episode, I explore Georges Bataille's account of religion through Zeynep Direk's reading — not as belief in a divine being, but as the acknowledgment of the movement where life and death pass into each other.I reflect on my own shift beyond doctrinal Christianity and how I'm developing what I call ethical hedonism — a way of honoring pleasure, eros, and vitality without abandoning structure or responsibility.We'll talk about ego, excess, abjection, and the festival as a necessary interruption of productivity — and why building small “festivals” into our lives may be essential for psychological health.

Therapy for Guys
Traumatic Secret

Therapy for Guys

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2026 16:31


In this solo episode, I explore what Jeffrey Kripal calls the traumatic secret — the uneasy coordination between trauma and transcendence in mystical literature — through the philosophy of Georges Bataille.I reflect on how Kripal shaped my own intellectual and spiritual development during a season of deconstruction, teaching me how to remain open to mystery while staying critically grounded. From Bataille's ideas about eroticism, death, and transgression to Huxley's filter theory and the destabilization of the ego, I examine the possibility that rupture does not “cause” mystical experience but may sometimes allow it to appear.This is not a romanticizing of trauma or a defense of supernaturalism. It's an inquiry into thresholds — those moments when the structures of the self tremble and something larger presses in.The shell must be broken.What emerges remains a mystery.

Culture en direct
Mortes et enjouées, les asperges d'Édouard Manet

Culture en direct

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2026 59:09


durée : 00:59:09 - Allons-y voir ! - par : Patrick Boucheron - En 1880, au crépuscule de sa vie, Édouard Manet signe deux tableaux représentant des asperges. Insignifiantes à première vue, elles fascinèrent pourtant Georges Bataille et tant d'autres. D'où ces natures mortes tirent elles la puissance de leur présence ? De quelle modernité sont-elles le fruit ? - réalisation : Laurence Millet - invités : Paul Audi Philosophe; Stéphane Guégan Historien, critique d'art, Conseiller scientifique auprès de la Présidence du musée d'Orsay et du musée de l'Orangerie.; Eleonore Challine Historienne, maître de conférence en histoire de la photographie à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Mathieu Potte-Bonneville Philosophe et directeur du département Culture et création du Centre Pompidou

Dialogues
Jouir pleinement de la vie - Jean-Luc Giribone - Dialogue #226

Dialogues

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2026 73:03


Jean-Luc Giribone est un penseur singulier, empruntant à la philosophie, à la spiritualité et au champ des thérapies. Dans ce Dialogue nous parcourons un sujet si présent qu'il en est souvent invisible : le cadre de nos pensées et de nos actions. Qu'est-ce qui fait que si souvent nous nous enfermons, répétant des schémas qui pourtant nous rendent malheureux ? C'est dans Dialogues et c'est, vous allez voir, passionnant.Le dernier livre de Jean-Luc : https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/par-dela-la-sagesse-jean-luc-giribone/9782021529531Mon site : https://www.fabricemidal.comReso, mon école de méditation : https://www.reso.coRéalisation, image et son : Alexandre AgostiniMontage : Constance HaondLes voies spirituelles apparaissent au premier abord très différentes les unes des autres : on ne voit guère ce qui rassemble la méditation assise, l'art des compositions florales et la pratique des arts martiaux. Et encore moins ce qui les rapproche de la « nuit obscure » de Jean de la Croix, ou de l'« expérience intérieure » de Georges Bataille. Mais la pluralité même de ces pratiques fait surgir la question de ce qui les réunit – qu'ont-elles en commun ? Comment changent-elles notre vision du monde, des choses, des théories et, plus profondément, notre rapport à la vie ? Et finalement, qu'est-ce qu'une « voie » ? Que veut dire ce mot, quand on tente d'en explorer la profondeur ?Telles sont les questions auxquelles veut répondre ce livre qui, en suivant l'itinéraire d'un « chercheur spirituel », et en faisant jouer divers éclairages venus de la psychanalyse, de la psychothérapie et des sciences humaines, explore les fondamentaux de ces pratiques de soi.Jean-Luc Giribone, ancien élève de l'ENS (Ulm), agrégé de lettres, s'intéresse à la pratique spirituelle depuis plus de trente ans. Il est l'auteur d'essais et de récits : Méditations carnavalesques, Le Rire étrange, Qu'est-ce qu'un homme de vérité ? et La Nef immobile.

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2026 68:11


This conversation focuses on the first 2 sections of Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share Volume 1. The discussion centers on the libidinal economics of expenditure, excess, waste and their relationship to reproduction. Bird of Paradise video/example link: https://youtu.be/nWfyw51DQfU?si=JfQtoiQjdcNwH1ku Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Les chemins de la philosophie
Philosophies de la fête : L'injonction à la fête

Les chemins de la philosophie

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 57:56


durée : 00:57:56 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann, Nassim El Kabli - Dans une société où le capitalisme de consommation transforme chaque occasion de célébration en produit marchand, la fête n'est-elle pas devenue une obligation ? Réponses avec Georges Bataille et Marcel Mauss. - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Dany-Robert Dufour Philosophe, essayiste; Jean-Michel Besnier Professeur émérite de philosophie à Sorbonne Université.

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OBS
Rumpans kulturhistoria: Röven har klättrat upp i nyllet

OBS

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 9:46


Från den skönstjärtade Afrodite, till clownen som drattar på ändan rumpan är central både för kropp och kultur. Torbjörn Elensky sätter sig på den och tänker efter. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Baken, stjärten, rumpan, arschlet, röven – kärt barn har många namn. I finare sällskap helst omtalad på franska, som derrieren. Skinkorna är våra största muskler. Det är den mest pinsamma, opassande och vulgära kroppsdelen. Att dratta på ändan är den lägsta formen av clowneri. Humor som förenar alla i världen, oavsett språk, kultur, religion och ålder. På italienska kallar man att ha tur för att ha stjärt, culo: Che culo! Betyder alltså Vilken tur! Man kan vifta på rumpan och bli smiskad på baken, fast det senare numera bara bör ske efter klart och tydligt samtycke. För jovisst, naturligtvis är denna clownernas viktigaste kroppsdel också erotiskt laddad.Redan de gamle greker visste att uppskatta ett par sköna halvklot nedanför ryggslutet, såpass att Afrodite kallipygos, den skönstjärtade Afrodite, senare mera känd som Venus aux belles fesses, utvecklades till en särskild skulpturgenre. Den undersköna kärleksgudinnan lyfter på sin klädnad och vrider sig bakåt så mycket det går för att få en glimt av sin egen vackra baksida. En version av henne står i pelarsalen på Stockholms slott, praktiskt nog framför en spegel, för den som vill skåda behagen utan att gå runt statyn. Det var Gustav III, inspirerad efter sin resa till Italien, som beställde den av Johan Tobias Sergel 1779. Stod modell gjorde ingen mindre än tidens stora kändis, hovdamen Ulla von Höpken. Det är alltså en klassisk tradition som på 2000-talet förvaltats av stjärnor som Jennifer Lopez och, inte minst, Kim Kardashian. En yppig bak är numera lika viktig som en svällande barm och det finns både särskilda träningsprogram för skinkmusklerna och skönhetsoperationen Brazilian butt lift, som lyfter rumpan för den som inte är nöjd med sitt medfödda häng.Den är faktiskt den mänskligaste av kroppsdelar. Inget annat djur har så stor rumpa som människor. Även om en del andra primater också har framträdande bakstycken. Chimpanshonornas ända lyser rött, nästan som en lykta, när hon är fertil och hon lockar till sig lämpliga hanar genom att visa upp den. Men de har inte två rejäla halvklot av kött och fett som står ut på baksidan. Den första människan som gick på två ben var Homo erectus, den upprätta människan, och det är också den första som börjar utveckla stora skinkor. De behövs nämligen dels för balansen, dels för att ge tryck i steget, förklarar den amerikanska journalisten Heather Radke, som har skrivit den moderna stjärtens historia. De två forskarna Daniel Lieberman och Dennis Bramble har dessutom specifikt visat att den kraftiga sätesmuskulaturen är nödvändig när man ska springa på två ben. Våra höfter, knän, fötter och alltså även rumpan är till för att vi ska kunna springa. Till skillnad från de flesta andra däggdjur är vi visserligen inte så snabba, men unikt uthålliga.Vår stora bakdel är alltså en enorm fördel, men de gigantiska skinkorna har förstås också medfört stora bekymmer i modern tid. Främst inom modevärlden inte minst och för kvinnor. Som Radke konstaterar är rumpfokuset förvisso inte lika könat längre – tänk på Thelma och Louise menande granskning av den skönstjärtade Brad Pitt eller när väninnorna i Sex and the city pratar manshäckar – men det är ändå kvinnans bakre behag som ägnats mest uppmärksamhet i modern tid. Under de senaste århundradena har den västerländska kvinnorumpan ofta varit ordentligt inpackad i många lager tyg, som både haft till uppgift att dölja och att framhäva. Till de märkligaste modenyckerna hör turnyren, en ställning som fina kvinnor bar under kjolarna på 1870 och 1880-talen, så att bakdelen framhävdes på ett överväldigande sätt. Den här sortens mode har flera möjliga förklaringar. Den enklaste är att man ytterligare skulle framhäva den smala midjan, som hölls insnörd i trånga valbenskorsetter, genom att låta tyget välla ut nedanför den. Den otroligt vida krinolinen kan förklaras på samma sätt. Men Radke hittar också ett annat spår.Även om människor generellt har stora säten, ansågs vita personer småskinkade, medan svarta beskrevs som motsatsen. Storleken kopplades till föreställningar om de mörkhyades sexuella vidlyftighet. Det ironiska med detta, som med så många rasistiska föreställningar, är att förakt och avund på något sätt blandas. För den stora stjärten ansågs även attraktiv. Redan tidigt på 1800-talet oroade man sig i Frankrike över att männen skulle bli mera upptända av de yppiga svarta kvinnornas dundergumpar än av de vita kvinnornas små derrierer. Och allting började med Sarah Baartman.Hon var troligen född revolutionsåret 1789 och kom från khoikhoifolket, som traditionellt varit herdar i nuvarande Sydafrika, och som sedan 1700-talet kallades hottentotter av européerna. Hon uppträdde först i London, sedan i Paris under 1810-talet i någon typ av hudfärgad kroppsstumpa, dekorerad med snäckskal och pärlor för att motsvara publikens förväntningar på en afrikanska. Alla ville se henne och framför allt hennes stora exotiska stjärt. Det finns mängder av karikatyrer av henne från tiden, som alla framhäver baken och hon blev så småningom till en stående typ: hottentotternas Venus. Andra kvinnor från khoikhoifolket kom att exploateras på liknande sätt och det centrala i alla bilder och föreställningar var den stora baken, som efter hand kom att bli en tvetydig generell symbol för erotik. Föraktad för att den ansågs djurisk, men eftertraktad som något sexuellt lockande. Kanske kan man förstå turnyren, detta märkliga plagg som döljer den äkta ändalykten bakom en jättestor fakerumpa, som ett uttryck för den motsägelsefulla fascinationen inför den afrikanska kvinnan.Sarah Baartman lämnades inte ifred ens när hon dog utan hon dissekerades, hennes könsorgan och stjärt blev avgjutna och hennes skelett stod utställt på Musée de l'homme i Paris, ända till 1974. Nelson Mandela föreslog 1994 att hennes kvarlevor skulle återbördas till Sydafrika och hon begravdes där 2002.Den franske författaren Georges Bataille hade idéer om hur stjärtens kraft i och med att vi reste oss på bakbenen skjutits upp i rösten och ansiktet. I sin poetiska essä ”Solärt anus” från 1927 skriver han: När mitt ansikte fylls av blod blir det rött och obscent. På samma gång avslöjar dess morbida reflexer en blodig erektion och en krävande hunger efter oblyghet och kriminella utsvävningar. Utan att tveka påstår jag därför att mitt ansikte är en skandal... Det låter groteskt, men oväntat nog har vetenskapen nu, nästan hundra år senare, givit honom åtminstone delvis rätt. Nederländska och japanska forskare har visat att människors ansiktsigenkänning i princip är densamma som chimpansernas rumpigenkänning. Våra ögonvitor, ögonbryn, röda läppar och rodnande kinder motsvarar den löpande chimpanshonans rodnande bak. De skriver att resultatet tyder på ”ett evolutionärt skifte i den socio-sexuella signalfunktionen från bakdelar till ansikten”. Bataille skulle ha varit nöjd. Vi är alla rövnyllen. Och det är inget skämt eller förolämpning utan bara ett vetenskapligt faktum.Torbjörn Elenskyförfattare, kritiker och essäist

OBS
Papyrerna från Oxyrhynchos: En sophög av myllrande mänsklighet

OBS

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 10:15


Soporna är historiens blundande skugga. Just därför är de så värdefulla. Dan Jönsson befarar att vårt genomlysta skit inte kan jämföra sig med antikens. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Finge jag önska något av historien är det att den inte var så tyst. Tänk, till exempel, om det ur städernas husfasader och stenläggningar gick att locka fram några av alla de ljud och röster som genom tiderna har ekat genom gränderna, ungefär som när man spelar upp en grammofonskiva? Om det i en gammal kruka inte bara gick att få syn på krukmakarens fingeravtryck utan också höra sången han nynnade medan han jobbade? Eller om jag hemma i mitt vardagsrum, som en gång lär ha fungerat som kontor för den lokala kooperationen, på något fiffigt vis kunde få golvspringorna och taksprickorna att släppa ifrån sig bara några brottstycken av diskussionerna och skitsnacket från föreningens sammanträden för hundra år sedan? Det skulle förstås mest bli lösryckta fragment, knappt ens begripliga och blandade huller om buller till en ruin av ljud som ändå – eller just i sin kakofoniska röra, tänker jag mig, skulle få det förflutna att kännas lika yrvaket levande som om det aldrig ens hade passerat.Det finns en sådan plats. I Nildalen, ungefär femton mil söder om dagens Kairo, låg en gång den antika staden Oxyrhynchos, ”elefantnosfiskens stad”. För tvåtusen år sedan var den en av det hellenistiska Egyptens metropoler – idag finns inget av den kvar. Det vill säga: av stadens stolta murar och monument återstår i stort sett inte ett spår. Det som bevarats är något helt annat, nästan motsatsen, nämligen dess soptipp. 1896 tog några engelska arkeologer ett spadtag i sanden i utkanten av den gamla staden och stötte på vad som visade sig vara oändliga mängder med gamla papyrusfragment. Bland det första som dök upp var ett litet stycke av Thomasevangeliet, och med skoporna som följde kom det ena efter det andra, en salig röra av dikter och inköpslistor, dramer och polisrapporter, priskuranter, klagomål och kärleksbrev. När de grävt färdigt, efter några år, hade de fått upp ungefär en halv miljon papyrusfragment.Hittills har lite drygt 6000 blivit dechiffrerade och publicerade. Av dem som gått att tidsbestämma kan man dra slutsatsen att soptippen varit i bruk från åtminstone 100-talet före till 700-talet efter vår tideräknings början – det är som om vi idag skulle slänga våra gamla kvitton och reklamblad på samma ställe som på 1200-talet. Och att allt i stort sett skulle finnas kvar. Det urval som publicerades på svenska 2025 omfattade knappt 400 korta texter, en del bara några lösryckta ord, andra fullt bevarade, begripliga utredningar om affärstransaktioner, skilsmässor, transporter och översvämningar. En slav har rymt och blir efterlyst med detaljerat signalement. En man har övermannats av sin kärlekslängtan och nedkallar en erotisk besvärjelse över sin älskade. En pojke deklarerar för sin pappa – vi befinner oss just här på 200-talet – att om han inte får följa med till Alexandria tänker han varken äta eller dricka mer, ”så det så”. En missnöjd kund i klädbutiken blir utsatt för misshandel och gör polisanmälan. Fem dubbla kannor vin ska inhandlas. Ett snabblån utverkas. En råttfångare får betalt.Att läsa dessa texter är som att lägga örat tätt intill en väldigt tunn vägg bakom vilken allt detta fortfarande pågår. Samtidigt, oavbrutet i munnen på vartannat. Pompejis berömda graffiti är dödsviskningar i jämförelse. Det spelar ingen roll att en del knappt går att urskilja, att somligt mest låter som ett osammanhängande mummel när det överröstas av det allmänna sorlet: för det är just själva sorlet som gör alltihop så intensivt levande, denna stockning av uppdämda ögonblick, denna hysteriska historiska samtidighet, detta liv på andra sidan tiden. Detta slumpmässiga, ofrivilliga arkiv av vittnesmål som framträder med sådan omedelbar skärpa och närvaro just för att det inte avsiktligt sparats och arkiverats på någon därför avsedd, avskild plats utan tvärtom medvetet sållats bort, lyfts ut ur tiden och historien.Man skulle kunna säga att om historien är det som blir kvar när tiden har gjort sitt, så är soporna det negativa avtrycket av den. Historiens blundande skugga. Bland det som utmärker vår egen tid är att den tycks vilja bekämpa denna omedvetna skugga med alla medel: lysa upp den, driva den på flykten, spara minsta vittnesbörd och representativa kvarleva i sina arkiv och bibliotek, fysiska och digitala. I världens stora arkiv ryms idag så mycket information att inge människa kan drömma om att få en överblick. I San Francisco i USA står en blinkande superserver, The Wayback Machine, som samlar skärmdumpar av världens internetsidor. Om historien har ett slut är det kanske så här det ser ut – när den sakta men säkert övergår i ögonblicklig, automatisk dokumentering.Men det betyder ju knappast att det i vår tid inte produceras sopor. Tvärtom, soporna hör i själva verket till den moderna civilisationens största produkter. Ett normalt dygn gör vi oss av med ungefär fem miljoner ton – nästan ett kilo skräp per jordinvånare och dag. Georges Bataille skriver i sin essä Den fördömda delen om överflödet som all ekonomisk aktivitets mål och mening. Som alla organiska processer genererar även den mänskliga ekonomin ett överskott, och varje samhällsform definieras av sitt sätt att hantera det. Aztekernas människooffer, Romarrikets militära expansion och vår tids konst och lyxkonsumtion är exempel på hur överskottet leds bort från den produktiva ekonomin och istället genererar existentiella – politiska och kulturella – värden. Samtidigt rör det sig alltså om just en avledning. Överskottet blir ett problem eftersom det frikopplas från den nytta och nödvändighet som ses som motorn i ekonomin. På så vis, menar Bataille, har det en tendens att skapa ångest i ett samhälle där dess problem i grunden förblir olöst.För dagens västerländska konsumenter är denna ångest ständigt närvarande. Vi vill helst inte se vårt överflöd i ögonen. Men avfallet är det ofrånkomliga beviset för detta ångestskapande överskott – därför måste det hållas undan, maskeras och förädlas. Istället för soptipp: återvinningsstation. Istället för att slänga, ”sorterar” vi. Med följden att soporna som sådana försvinner – redan innan de bränns eller återvinns, mals ner och deponeras. Fragmenten från Oxyrrhynchos ger mig en hisnande känsla av att stå inför ett gigantiskt, kollektivt, historiskt minne, ett nät av slumpmässiga synapser som tillsammans bildar något både tidlöst och ögonblickligt. Någon liknande superhjärna lär framtidens akeologer knappast hitta bland det avfall som vi lämnat efter oss. Istället kommer de att storkna framför våra tysta arkiv, förbluffat fråga sig: var detta människor som fanns, på riktigt? Kanske hittade de bara på sig själva.Dan Jönssonförfattare och essäistLitteraturGeorges Bataille: Den fördömda delen. Översättning: Johan Öberg. Bokförlaget Faethon, 2021.

Beauty Unlocked the podcast
The Erotic Bite: Dracula, Carmilla, and Forbidden Desire

Beauty Unlocked the podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 16:01


Welcome, my ghoulish fiends!Why do vampires seduce us even as they terrify us? In the second episode of Dark Thirst, I explore the erotic power of the vampire's bite, where intimacy meets violence, and desire crosses forbidden boundaries. We dive into repressed sexualities, dangerous loves and the Victorian obsession with "beautiful death," uncovering how fear and lust became inseparable in Gothic literature. From the shocking passion of Carmilla to Mina Harker's disturbing "baptism of blood" in Dracula, we reveal why the vampire still haunts our most forbidden fantasies. Join me... if you dare...***Listener Discretion is Strongly Advised*******************Sources & References:Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) – Chapters 16 and 21 quoted.Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872) – Chapters 4 and 11 quoted.Ernest Jones, On the Nightmare (1931).Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves (1995).Ken Gelder, Reading the Vampire (1994).Carol A. Senf, “Dracula: Stoker's Response to the New Woman,” Victorian Studies (1982).Richard Davenport-Hines, Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes to Sex and Sexuality inBritain Since the Renaissance (1990).Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (1976).Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1957).James Stevens Curl, The Victorian Celebration of Death (2000).Bénédict Morel, Treatise on Degeneration (1857).Max Nordau, Degeneration (1892).Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919).****************Leave Us a 5* Rating, it helps the show!Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beauty-unlocked-the-podcast/id1522636282Spotify Podcast:https://open.spotify.com/show/37MLxC8eRob1D0ZcgcCorA****************Follow Us on Social Media & Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!YouTube:@beautyunlockedspodcasthourTikTok:tiktok.com/@beautyunlockedthepod****************MUSIC & SOUND FX:"Numb3rs" by Jay VartonEpidemic SoundFind the perfect track on Epidemic Sound for your content and take it to the next level! See what the hype is all about!

Dialogues
Savoir jouir de la vie, le véritable sens de la spiritualité - Jean-Luc Giribone - Dialogue #65 (rediffusion)

Dialogues

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 41:46


Qu'est-ce que l'expérience spirituelle a à nous apporter ? De quoi vient-elle, en quelque sorte, nous guérir ? Nous en parlons avec mon ami Jean-Luc Giribone, penseur et écrivain. Le livre de Jean-Luc : https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/par-dela-la-sagesse-jean-luc-giribone/9782021529531 Mon site : https://www.fabricemidal.comFacebook Fabrice Midal : https://www.facebook.com/FabriceMidalFacebook du podcast Dialogues : https://www.facebook.com/dialogues.fmInstagram Fabrice Midal : https://www.instagram.com/fabricemidalInstagram du podcast Dialogues : https://www.instagram.com/fabricemidal_dialogues/Tiktok : https://www.tiktok.com/@fabricemidal Mes trois chaînes YouTube :Mes vidéos : https://www.youtube.com/@fabricemidal1Les Dialogues : https://www.youtube.com/@dialoguesfmLes méditations guidées : https://www.youtube.com/@mediteravecfabricemidal  Reso, mon école de méditation :https://www.reso.cohttps://www.facebook.com/reso.meditationhttps://www.instagram.com/reso_meditation Mots clé : Les voies spirituelles apparaissent au premier abord très différentes les unes des autres : on ne voit guère ce qui rassemble la méditation assise, l'art des compositions florales et la pratique des arts martiaux. Et encore moins ce qui les rapproche de la « nuit obscure » de Jean de la Croix, ou de l'« expérience intérieure » de Georges Bataille. Mais la pluralité même de ces pratiques fait surgir la question de ce qui les réunit – qu'ont-elles en commun ? Comment changent-elles notre vision du monde, des choses, des théories et, plus profondément, notre rapport à la vie ? Et finalement, qu'est-ce qu'une « voie » ? Que veut dire ce mot, quand on tente d'en explorer la profondeur ?Telles sont les questions auxquelles veut répondre ce livre qui, en suivant l'itinéraire d'un « chercheur spirituel », et en faisant jouer divers éclairages venus de la psychanalyse, de la psychothérapie et des sciences humaines, explore les fondamentaux de ces pratiques de soi. Jean-Luc Giribone, ancien élève de l'ENS (Ulm), agrégé de lettres, s'intéresse à la pratique spirituelle depuis plus de trente ans. Il est l'auteur d'essais et de récits : Méditations carnavalesques, Le Rire étrange, Qu'est-ce qu'un homme de vérité ? et La Nef immobile. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Philosophize This!
Episode #233 ... A philosophy of self-destruction. (Dostoevsky, Bataille)

Philosophize This!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 33:57


Today we talk about two different theories for why we ritualize self-destructive behavior. We check out a lesser-known work from Dostoevsky called The Gambler. We consider how much we can hold people morally accountable for this kind of stuff. Then we look at the work of Georges Bataille, his book The Accursed Share, and how a hidden underlying economics may be a way we can understand self-destructive behavior from a new angle. Hope you love it and have a great week. :) Sponsors: Greenlight: https://www.greenlight.com/PT Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Acid Horizon
Georges Bataille's 'On Nietzsche': War, Chance, and the Collapse of Meaning with Stuart Kendall

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 104:13


What does it mean to write philosophy in a time of catastrophe? In this episode, we're joined once again by Stuart Kendall to explore Georges Bataille's On Nietzsche, a fragmented, intimate, and disorienting text written in the final years of World War II. We examine how Nietzsche becomes not just a philosophical reference but a companion for Bataille—a figure through whom Bataille grapples with sovereignty, death, and the limits of knowledge. From Sartre's accusations of mysticism to the will to chance as a response to fascism and nuclear horror, we trace how On Nietzsche opens up an ethics of risk, uselessness, and survival.Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Le goût de M
#158 Yoa, chanteuse : « Sur dix ans de castings, je n'ai eu que des rôles pour des filles qui s'appelaient Lila ou Leïla, des filles qui viennent de banlieue et veulent se réapproprier leur corps par leur sexualité »

Le goût de M

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 56:46


Son premier album, La Favorite, sorti en janvier, l'a positionnée comme l'une des figures montantes de la chanson française. En février, Yoa remportait le prix Révélation scène aux Victoires de la musique. Ses chansons mélangent des rythmes urbains et électroniques qui accompagnent des paroles nourries de littérature et évoquent sans détour les relations, les sentiments qui se délitent et les violences sexuelles – comme lorsqu'elle confronte son agresseur dans Le Collectionneur, dernier morceau de l'album.Elle nous reçoit dans son appartement, où elle vient d'emménager, une « petite grotte un peu chaleureuse » aux confins du 5e arrondissement de Paris. Un deux-pièces où cohabitent un grand canapé en velours blanc et un fauteuil livré sans notice de montage, des lampes Ikea et ses références culturelles : l'album How I'm Feeling Now de Charli XCX, un recueil de poèmes d'Arthur Tebou (vocaliste et parolier du groupe Feu ! Chatterton), Clôture de l'amour, de Pascal Rambert – un « livre de chevet » –, et « Guillaume Dustan, qui est là, dans [s]a chambre ».Dans cet épisode du « Goût de M », Yoa parle de son père, suisse, et de sa mère, camerounaise, qui l'ont fait grandir à Paris au milieu de films, de livres et de musique. A 26 ans, elle mêle allègrement références pop (« Lana del Rey, oh mon Dieu ! »), littérature féministe (Virginie Despentes, bell hooks, Valerie Solanas) et philosophie (Georges Bataille). Elle s'est d'ailleurs imaginée philosophe, puis actrice de théâtre, avant que ses chansons postées sur les réseaux sociaux ne soient repérées par des professionnels de la musique. Elle achève sa tournée cet été et annonce déjà un nouvel EP pour novembre. Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

Wisdom of Crowds
What Kanye West Thinks He's Doing

Wisdom of Crowds

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 55:47


This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.liveWhy do artists try so hard to shock the public? Why is Kanye West singing about Hitler? Why are New York artists dabbling with fascism?The novelist and cultural critic Țara Isabella Burton joins Damir Marusic and Santiago Ramos to discuss these questions and more. Last week, Tara published an essay on Wisdom of Crowds titled “The Point of Pissing People Off.” In it, she tries to figure out whether there is something positive at work in transgression and provocation — something good that comes out of shocking art.All three of our conversationalists agree: Kanye is not really being transgressive. But is there a good version of transgression? Tara suggests that we should think about transgression as a genre, with a certain form and structure, that can either succeed or fail. Damir is skeptical of analyzing transgression, and prefers to think of it as a moment of ecstasy. Santiago wonders if transgression is important for self-knowledge, and something valuable for society as a whole.In the course of the conversation, many transgressive works and artists are discussed, among them: Piss Christ; Madonna; Georges Bataille; the Marquis de Sade; and more.In our bonus section for paid subscribers, Damir talks about the difference between analyzing transgressive art and consuming transgressive art, and why he prefers the latter; Damir discusses the difference between the punk rock of his day, where Reagan was the enemy, and the transgressive art today, which hails Trump as a leader; Tara, Santiago, and Damir trade thoughts about the French Revolution; Santiago tries to get Damir to explain what he means when he talks about “the stuff”; they discuss the question of whether love is as powerful as transgression; Damir talks about his favorite part of the Gospels; and Tara talks about kitsch.Required Reading and Listening:* Tara, “The Point of Pissing People Off” (Wisdom of Crowds).* Tara, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (Amazon).* Tara, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians (Amazon).* Damir's discography from his punk rock days (Discogs).* Damir's music with his band, The Miss (Bandcamp).* Kanye West, “Heil Symphony” (Spotify).* “Kanye West's ‘Heil Hitler' Song & Controversy Explained” (Yahoo! Entertainment). * The new Fiume Gallery in New York.* Piss Christ by Andres Serrano (Artchive).* Madonna, “Material Girl” (YouTube).* Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Amazon).* Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (Amazon).* Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Amazon).* Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Amazon).* Previous podcast episode where Damir says, “That's the stuff!” (Wisdom of Crowds).* Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge, a book about Mother Teresa (Amazon).Free preview video:Full video for paid subscribers below:

The Problem: A Lockwood and Co Podcast
The Empty Grave: Fittes House Pt 1

The Problem: A Lockwood and Co Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 85:30


Caitlin and Alan get some corrections out in the open. Then we get back to talking about Quill Kipps! We can't help ourselves. Later there are explosions- but fewer than Caitlin would like! And Lucy confronts Penelope alone. Listener vs ListenerDisney Hyperion imprint was sold to Hachette after Lockwood and Co was published and is currently owned by Hachette as of this podcast publicationWade's death scene in Saving Private Ryan is harrowingAraboth in Jewish cosmology is the 7th Heaven. The highest Heaven with the throne of God.Georges Bataille was a French philosopherFollow Caitlin on BlueSky @inferiorcaitlinFollow the show on Twitter @LockwoodPodcastOur theme music is “Magic Escape Room” by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. It is licensed under a Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0 agreement.If you want to reach out please send an email to contact@hallowedgroundmedia.com or visit our Contact page.

Occult Confessions
26.9: The Sacred Stage (Interview Special)

Occult Confessions

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 51:33


Renowned Renaissance Festival performers Judas and Magnolia return to discuss the sacred and spiritual components of performance. In a conversation that ranges from Plato to Georges Bataille, the theater becomes something more than just a place to see a show.

Weird Economies presents
Foul Freedoms with Alberto Toscano

Weird Economies presents

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 106:11


In this episode, we talked about how fascism transforms itself in and across different historical conjunctures; how the far right uses race and gender as key points of articulation and why we should be engaging with psychoanalytic theories of fascism alongside radical anti-fascist thinkers; our current moment of transition as one of systemic instability, uncertainty and reorientation; and how in the contemporary moment of resurgent fascism, migration must be thought together with carcerality, especially when deportation has become the emblem of the Trump administration.Alberto Toscano is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015), La abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital (Palinodia, 2021), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (Seagull, 2023), Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2023), and Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri (Brill, 2025). He is the co-editor of the 3-volume The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg, SAGE, 2022), Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Abolition Geography: Essays in Liberation (with Brenna Bhandar, Verso, 2022), and Georges Bataille's Critical Essays, vols. I and II (with Benjamin Noys, Seagull, 2023 and 2025). He is series editor of Seagull Essays and The Italian List for Seagull Books, and a columnist for the magazine In These Times. He has also translated the work of Antonio Negri, Alain Badiou, Franco Fortini, and Furio Jesi.Against the Fascist Game is the second season of The Exploits of Play, a podcast about games and capitalism. Join host Max Haiven and producer Faye Harvey as they interview game designers, critical theorists and grassroots activists struggling with games to understand, confront and abolish the rising threat of fascism in our times. We ask questions including: how is the far-right around the world using games as platforms for ideology, recruiting and violence, both close to home and around the world? How have vicious reactionary politics emerged from a form of capitalism where most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game? What do fascism and antifascism mean today? And what role, if any do play and games have in confronting the fascist threat and creating a new world? The Exploits of Play is a production of Weird Economies, a platform for exploring the intricacies and excesses of our economic imaginaries, in cooperation with RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mittelweg 36
Warum will man Faschismus?

Mittelweg 36

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 38:21


In diesen Tagen lässt sich vielerorts eine Stärkung autoritärer Kräfte beobachten. Doch was macht die Anziehungskraft einer Bewegung aus, die illiberal, antidemokratisch und antiparlamentarisch ist? Faschismustheorien zielen auf die Beschreibung, Erklärung und Kritik faschistischer Tendenzen. Morten Paul und Hannah Schmidt-Ott sprechen über die Ansätze von Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari, Georges Bataille sowie Walter Benjamin und fragen, was sie uns über die Gegenwart verraten.Morten Paul ist Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler und forscht am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen.Literatur„Das F-Wort“, in: Analyse & Kritik. Zeitung für linke Debatte & Praxis713 (2025), 18.3.2025.„Faschismus als Lustgewinn“, in: Berlin Review 9 (2025).„Kommentar: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit“, in: diffrakting the library/diffrakt. Zentrum für theoretische Peripherie, 10.10.2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forms
Episode 25: John Maus on Music & Political Philosophy

Forms

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 88:19


We discuss John's art, his dissertation, “Communication & Control”, his “Theses on Punk Rock”, and briefly his “Fifteen Suppositions”. We also discuss Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Theodor Adorno, Michael Pisaro, Jacob Taubes, Simone Weil, Georges Bataille, Sergii Bulgakov, David Bentley Hart, Jordan Daniel Wood, St. Isaac of Nineveh, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and more.

Les Nuits de France Culture
Georges Bataille : "On ne peut pas émouvoir sans que le trouble soit en jeu"

Les Nuits de France Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2025 60:57


durée : 01:00:57 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - Comment tenir un pari que l'on sait intenable ? Comment faire un film consacré à Georges Bataille et à son œuvre ? En 1997, dans les "Nuits magnétiques" André S. Labarthe invite l'auditeur à une plongée dans les réflexions et les doutes d'un cinéaste confronté à un sujet réputé impossible. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Georges Bataille; André S. Labarthe Critique de cinéma, documentariste et producteur français

Acid Horizon
Bataille, Eroticism, and the Future of Porn with Vex Ashley (aka @vextape)

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 61:51


Read this: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-booksCW: explicit discussions of sex and pornographyIn this episode, we explore the intersections of eroticism, pornography, and theory with special guest Vex Ashley of Four Chambers. We discuss the influence of Georges Bataille on erotic art, the political stakes of sex work in an increasingly censorious cultural climate, and the boundaries between pornography and artistic expression. Vex shares insights into her creative process, the resurgence of the "mommy" archetype, and how erotic filmmaking can challenge dominant narratives about sex and power. We also examine the impact of digital platforms on intimacy, censorship, and the shifting landscape of desire.ig: @vextapeSupport the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastJoin The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Rejected Religion Podcast
RR Patreon T2 Free Content Ayesha Adamo: The Open Fluidity of No-Mind, The Acéphale, & 'Endarkenment'

Rejected Religion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 21:57


Ayesha Adamo is an academic, performing artist, and filmmaker currently working towards a PhD in Religion at Rice University under Jeffrey J. Kripal. Her dissertation project explores fluid cosmological ideas, both historically and in current quantum mechanics. She holds an MA in Religious Studies from Universiteit van Amsterdam's Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy & Related Currents and is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a degree in music. Rumor has it she was once in an Asian pop band on EMI Records. Her most recent articles can be found in Anthropology of Consciousness and Religious Studies Review. She is also an ordained Hierophant and Grand Chief of Temple of Thelema.In this discussion, we first look at Georges Bataille and his interpretation of the Acéphale. Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher and intellectual, interested in surrealism, and anti- fascist, who, in 1937 founded two groups with the goal of exploring how combinations of power and ‘the sacred' were at play in society. The first group was called the College of Sociology that gave lectures (exoteric group); the second group was Acéphale, an esoteric ‘secret society.' Additionally, a public review by the same name, whose emblem was a headless man, was published in 1936. Ayesha talks a bit about this Acéphale emblem and what this represents, including remarks about the connections to Aleister Crowley's concept of The Abyss; the notion of receptivity, and the difference between the ‘magical' and ‘mystical' currents. Moving from Bataille to George Balanchine, the famous choreographer who co-founded the New York City Ballet Company in 1948; Balanchine is probably most known for his plotless ballets and minimalism, and has a famous quote, “Don't think Dear, just do!' Ayesha shares how are she is linking these two figures and the concept of the Acéphale. She is currently thinking about how the meditative state is the artist's state as well.Ayesha then expands on her 2023 article, “The League of Endarkenment: Hakim Bey and the Way of Disappearance into Nature” talking about “Endarkenment” and how this fits into this same area of headlessness, the mandrake, and disappearance.Lastly, taken from her paper abstract, Ayesha talks more about what she means by “the open fluidity of no-mind”  and “the performance of headless meditation.”*Note 1: I mistakenly say ‘Endarkment' instead of ‘Endarkenment' (my apologies!); plus, around the 29:00 minute mark, the name ‘D.T. Suzuki' is unfortunately cut off due to audio issues. Please find more information about Suzuki in the program notes below.*Note 2 (Not Ignoring the Elephant in the Room): Peter Lamborn Wilson, who wrote under the name ‘Hakim Bey,' was a controversial figure, and unfortunately, rumors have arisen surrounding some of his writings regarding NAMBLA. Accusations were made by a particular website (run by one person, a fellow anarchist) against Wilson, and due to the nature of the internet, damaging assumptions were made. This article A Tribute to Peter Lamborn Wilson - The Brooklyn Rail is a collection of testimonials, and discusses this matter in more detail, giving much needed context.PROGRAM NOTES:Ayesha Adamo | Student | The People of Rice | Rice UniversityAyesha Adamo | Rice University - Academia.eduInstagramAyesha Adamohttps://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty-research/programs-and-centers/program-evolution-spirituality#:~:text=The%20Program%20for%20the%20Evolution%20of%20Spirituality%20%28PES%29,also%20prepares%20students%20for%20ministry%20in%20these%20mov (More information forthcoming regarding this program and how to join remotely!)It Takes a Lunatic | Officiële Netflix-websiteORGCHAOSMIK - GUSTAF BROMSD. T. Suzuki: A Biographical Summary - Association for Asian StudiesWhat are Superfluids and Why Are They Important?Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?Ayesha's article in The Fenris Wolf (#13) is forthcoming; I will post a link (on Patreon) when it becomes available.Music and Editing: Daniel P. SheaEnd Production: Stephanie Shea

Le goût de M
#146 Vanessa Springora, autrice : « Mon père est mort quelques jours après la parution du “Consentement”, et j'ai pensé que c'était le livre qui l'avait tué »

Le goût de M

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 51:19


En 2020, l'écrivaine et éditrice Vanessa Springora signe « Le Consentement », un livre d'une grande puissance où elle raconte la relation abusive et la prédation qu'elle avait subies adolescente avec l'auteur Gabriel Matzneff. Pendant qu'elle assure la promotion de son livre, elle apprend subitement la mort de son père, avec lequel elle n'avait plus de relation depuis son enfance. En triant des objets lui appartenant, elle découvre des photographies de son grand-père avec des insignes nazis. C'est le début d'une enquête qu'elle va mener sur ses origines. Et qui aboutira, cinq ans plus tard, à son deuxième roman, « Patronyme ».Vanessa Springora nous accueille chez elle, une ancienne confiserie transformée en habitation, à Belleville, dans le 19ᵉ arrondissement de Paris. Elle raconte sa scolarité, avec une institutrice pittoresque et ses découvertes de « livres-témoignage » « Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée et prostituée », « L'Herbe bleue » de Beatrice Sparks, « Le Pavillon des enfants fous » de Valérie Valère.Ayant vécu à Mexico, l'autrice donne ses impressions de ce pays d'Amérique du Nord où elle a ressenti un fort tremblement de terre et d'où elle a ramené un objet fétiche : un autel portatif… Elle s'amuse aussi du point commun entre son mémoire de maîtrise sur la notion de trouble dans les romans de Georges Bataille et le nom de la collection qu'elle dirige actuellement chez l'éditeur Julliard : Fauteuse de trouble.Depuis six saisons, la journaliste et productrice Géraldine Sarratia interroge la construction et les méandres du goût d'une personnalité. Qu'ils ou elles soient créateurs, artistes, cuisiniers ou intellectuels, tous convoquent leurs souvenirs d'enfance, tous évoquent la dimension sociale et culturelle de la construction d'un corpus de goûts, d'un ensemble de valeurs.Un podcast produit et présenté par Géraldine Sarratia (Genre idéal) préparé avec l'aide de Diane Lisarelli et Juliette SavardRéalisation : Emmanuel BauxMusique : Gotan Project Hébergé par Audion. Visitez https://www.audion.fm/fr/privacy-policy pour plus d'informations.

Visually Sacred: Conversations on the Power of Images
Rina Arya: Abjection and Aesthetics

Visually Sacred: Conversations on the Power of Images

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 99:25


Rina Arya is a Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Hull, UK. She started her academic career working on the role of the sacred in death of God culture, especially in the paintings of Francis Bacon and writings of Georges Bataille, resulting in her acclaimed book "Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World". Her work on Bacon led to research in abjection where she wrote a number of articles and books on the subject, notably "Abjection and Representation." Rina is completing her next book on the cultural appropriation of Hinduism.​ In this conversation, Rina and I explored the areas of intersection between contemporary art and theology, focusing on theological aesthetics, embodiment, abjection, and the role of materiality in religious practices. We also discussed how contemporary artists engage with religious motifs, the impact of digital culture on spiritual experiences, and the importance of contemplative spaces in art. Additionally, we spoke about the evolving nature of religious expression in art and considered the potential for interfaith dialogue through artistic practices.

Acid Horizon
The Schizoanalysis Project Invites and 'Acéphalous' Update

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 3:09


Some crucial updates before we come to the end of the year and begin 2025.Support the show

Acid Horizon
Baudrillard Versus Trump 2.0: Domination, Hegemony, and the Death of Meaning

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 72:34


Support the Kickstarter campaign as you listen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille"Are We Still Able to Die?": https://camtology.substack.com/p/are-we-still-able-to-dieIn this episode of Acid Horizon, we are joined by philosopher and writer Cameron Carsten to discuss his recent blog post, "Are We Still Able to Die?"—the first installment in his series Power as Reality. Cameron's work delves into the nature of power as the control over reality, tracing its manifestations through domination, hegemony, and the symbolic dimensions of life and death. Drawing on thinkers like Baudrillard, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari, this conversation also confronts urgent questions of meaning, fulfillment, and resistance in the shadow of the emerging Trump 2.0 era.Support the show

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*NEW* 2025 Anti-Oedipus Reading Group and More!

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 5:08


Some important announcements about the podcast and things to come in the near future.Help us complete the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleSupport the show

Acid Horizon
The Headless Politics of Georges Bataille with Stuart Kendall at the Durations Festival

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 79:13


SUPPORT Acid Horizon's Kickstarter project, Acéphalous: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleDURATIONS FESTIVAL @ PUBLIC RECORDS (BROOKLYN, NY) 11.9.2024Acid Horizon and Stuart Kendall unite for an in-person discussion that delves into the core concepts of Georges Bataille's work—excess, heterology, the festival, and more. The conversation explores how these ideas underpin Bataille's political thought and their implications for navigating the complex political landscapes of 2025 and beyond.Support the show

Acid Horizon
'The War on the Social Factory' with Annie Paradise and Manolo Callahan

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 69:29


Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleBut the 'War on the Social Factory': https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146648/the-war-on-the-social-factory/About the book: A collective ethnography of grassroots mobilizations for community safety across the Silicon Valley This is a narrative of struggle and solidarity and a collective toolkit for grassroots opposition to militarization, policing, and ongoing conditions of war in the current conjuncture of racial patriarchal capitalism. Grassroots researcher Annie Paradise presents here a collective ethnography of the mothers and community matriarchs whose children have been murdered by police across the San Francisco Bay Area as they develop and practice autonomous, creative forms of resistance. The War on the Social Factory: The Struggle for Community Safety in the Silicon Valley maps local families' struggles to reclaim their households and their communities—to create a social infrastructure of care, justice, and safety outside state- and market-determined modes of “security.” Practices such as sustained vigil, testimony, and the production and circulation of insurgent knowledges are shown here to be part of interconnected justice efforts to demilitarize and decarcerate communities in the face of the multiple forms of violence enacted under late racial patriarchal capitalism. Paradise examines the expanding carceral processes of enclosure, criminalization, dispossession, expropriation, and disposability that mark the neoliberal "security” regime across the Silicon Valley and offers counter-counterinsurgent strategies and practices of co-generative, dynamic resistance.CRRA wevsite: http://www.ccra-tech.art/Support the show

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'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction' with Thomas Nail

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 70:05


Please fund the Acéphalous Kickstarter today!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleAcid Horizon and Stuart Kendall live at the Durations Festival on November 9th, 2024: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/Buy Thomas' book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-philosophy-of-movement/About 'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction': Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth of the reasons, Thomas Nail suggests that it serves us well to turn to a philosophy of movement. Synthesizing and extending many years of his influential work, The Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history.Nail critiques the bias toward stasis at the core of Western thought, asking: what would a philosophy that began with the primacy of movement look like? Interrogating the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, he draws connections and traces patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge. In our age of rapid movements shaped by accelerating climate change and ensuing mass global migration, as well as ubiquitous digital media, Nail provides a contemporary philosophy that helps us understand how we got here and how to grapple with these interlocking challenges.With a foreword by philosopher Daniel W. Smith, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction is a must-read for scholars and students not only of philosophy but also history, anthropology, science and technology studies, mobility studies, and other fields across the humanities and social sciences. Support the show

Acid Horizon
Acéphalous Launch Livestream is Today, October 31st at 12PM EST!

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 1:43


Yuk Hui episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/machine-and-for-114829416?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkJoin us for the livestream in these places: Campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...https://www.twitch.tv/acidhorizonpodcasthttps://www.youtube.com/@AcidHorizonig: @acidhorizonpodSee you there!Support the show

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'Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking' with Yuk Hui

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 79:45


Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleBuy the book from University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917418/machine-and-sovereignty/What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts.Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel's political state and Schmitt's Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity.Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.Support the show

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The Philosophy of Simone Weil with Kenny Novis and David Levy

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 73:44


Support this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleIn this episode of Acid Horizon, Will takes the lead as host, welcoming Kenny Novis and special guest David Levy. David, a philosophy professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the translators and editors of 'Simone Weil: Basic Writings', joins the conversation. Simone Weil, the renowned French mystic and political activist, has influenced a broad range of thinkers. Today, we explore Weil's key concepts, such as decreation, her moral philosophy, and her critique of colonialism.Support the show

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Introducing LEPHT HAND: Examining Georges Bataille's "The Psychological Structure of Fascism" (Part 1)

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 58:10


In this inaugural episode of LEPHT HAND, we delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: Marxism, anarchism, anthropology, political economy.Join the Patreon (free or paid membership): https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDFollow me on "Twitter": @lepht_handSupport the Show.Support the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Otherppl with Brad Listi
921. Colombe Schneck

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 71:52


Colombe Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, available from Penguin Press. Translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.  Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among other publications. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.  Natasha Lehrer is a writer, translator, editor, and teacher. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer (London), The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Frieze, and other journals. As literary editor of the Jewish Quarterly she has worked with writers including Deborah Levy, George Prochnik, and Joanna Rakoff. She has contributed to several books, most recently Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism. She has translated over two dozen books, including works by Georges Bataille, Robert Desnos, Amin Maalouf, Vanessa Springora, and Chantal Thomas. In 2016, she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. She lives in Paris. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices