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Mystics, Heretics, and Madmen: Ears for things outrageous
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Mystics, Heretics, and Madmen: Ears for things outrageous

Georges Bataille, Nietzsche, the labyrinth, ears and prophecies, taboo, Dionysus, and the sacred

On the occasion of the new moon in Aquarius: the first in a labyrinthine series called Mystics, Heretics, and Madmen, for paid subscribers.

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“I am not a philosopher, but a saint, maybe a madman.” – Georges Bataille, Method of Meditation

“To purify community of all its ‘contamination’ for whatever political agenda is an activity that leads to the destruction of community. A community without foreign bodies is a dead community, a community that lacks any communication with its outside. It is in the negotiation with the foreign body that community is at stake…” — Benjamin Noys, Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction

In this one, I talk (in my morning voice) about the following: Georges Bataille and Bataille’s (mad, mystic) Nietzsche, death of god mysticism, ears as labyrinths, the tragic worldview, and risky readings.

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Cosmic Edges
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cosmic edgelady talking about philosophy, literature, and astrology