Intro to Georges Bataille with Nina Power #Bataille

[Δάμων_Δ]

Youtube is in serious need of quality Bataille material, thanks for the wonderful contribution

[Δάμων_Δ]

Deathspell Omega is by far the most Bataillean musical act today. Not only do they utilize his work explicitly in their lyrics, but their sonic and visual style is Bataillean par excellence.

[murrayr]

I need to say this here and now. Zoom is the worst POS technology in the last ten years. It basically works at the level of dial-up internet. Infuriating when every other sentence has a glitch and then add the Ms Power's accent. It blows my mind that Zoom is now worth Billions. But since we live in an age where humans will put up with anything as long as their cell phones can lead them to Twitter or Instagram it's not surprising.
but I do want to thank Justin for doing his best and Nina for the many interesting observations that I could fully make out.

[ElusiveMirror]

I have no idea if they are by any means the best, but someone in the live chat asked for an example of artists that in some way are incarnations of Bataille's philosphy. One example of this is the avant-garde black metal band Deathspell Omega, who at least for their album The Furnaces of Palingenesia has mentioned Bataille as a strong influence on their work.

[oceanmachine]

The thing about the sun that she said about in the first ten minutes was powerful and her comprehension of Bataille is very accurate. All of these things do have deeply mystical and spiritual means for Bataille, paradoxically perhaps.

[nucleons]

You could also bring up his books "The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture", "The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge", "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927 - 1939", "L'Abbe C", & "The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism".

[ernestoh]

wonderful can't believe I just stumbled upon this ;, )

[horseman]

Seminar room is a sacred society and cancellation is a 'human sacrifice'. And all of this in context of larping Bataille. Yes, we are living in posthuman world. 'Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink'.

[OdoItal]

Contra Justin's distinction between LARP and 'Real', we're all born naked, the rest is LARP. Justin is LARPing philosopher, youtuber, whatever. Cultural participation is LARP.

[bacaloubaca]

.. def need more of this, as others have also said.. 🧐👍

[SafetyPropaganda]

I've read Power's book. She's brilliant.

[bigfat]

If there's anything the live chat and comments taught me it's to not talk about Bataille with fans of Bataille.

[horseman]

To treat Bataille as a larper is such an easy way to not engage with his thought. It is just a way to go around the most controversial aspects of his thought. Even if stories of potential human sacrifice are not true, what is important is that Bataille's thought/existential experiment was gravitating toward this direction. 'Academic' Bataille is the castrated Bataille. And I don't even like him very much.

[evanjack]

Justin why did you call Bataille a larper LMAOO

[DiamorphineDeath]

She is absolutely fantastic. Incredibly stoked on how she expressed herself and approached the material; and wasn’t an apologist for anything, just stating everything as such, which is tough when it comes to anything critical theory related, is there always needs to an a priori sort of distancing from the material, for example...”I obviously don’t agree with Bataille’s orientalism expressed, obviously, but his point...” heard that the other day on a podcast, where these individuals must always be put through a soft of progressive or Overton window filter/machine and then talked about, which is incredibly frustrating. I love the fact she didn’t do that, which is very refreshing.

[nucleons]

You could read Bataille's "Theory of Religion" ... to recognize his perspective of "religion"...

[Jaredthedude]

Elon musk fires a car into space and people wonder if there is excess.

[lucretiak.]

"bataille was a larper and a deeply mentally ill individual" just makes him cooler

[Kholan]

1:09:54 Nina Power coming in hot at the end of this talk.
So good 💪

[sneedle]

1:10:00 The Dark Carnival, if you will