A Reading of Georges Bataille's "The Solar Anus"
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FUCK, now this is a good reading. Damn it, your Bataille reading series are among the best CZcams content I've stumbled across. The subtle music, the fact that you're containing your laughter at all times (making it way more funny), the graphics...
I listen to this every few months and always get something new out of it. Amazing piece, good video!
Glad you enjoy it!
Me too!
Very moved, but fuck if my gay ass can not get through a single one of bataille’s works without bursting out laughing at least once
if we don't laugh, Bataille has failed!
That laugh is the climax! You just came via your vocal cords. Was it good for you?
I grew up Mormon. One of the scriptures states " Adam fell that man might be. Men are that they might have joy.." It's all about that transmutation from one state to another. If you didn't laugh you would cry. Each has it's own magical worth.
that's what I'm thinking while listening to this! very new to bataille & can't help but wonder how creative someone has to be to make it applicable to queerness
i like this guy he crazy
Wow, another possible solution to the Fermi paradox.
I can't this seriously without laughing at the concept of penis, good book.
Risking sounding like an absolute simpleton, but this gives me powerful Time Cube vibes.
Prove him wrong - I'll wait
@@toastybowlThis makes sense to me and Time Cube doesn’t.
@@toastybowlschizophrenic homophobe and racist gets confused about time.
3:32 It's because he is the sus impostor
Where am I? How did I get here?!
I see a lot of crossover between Batailles and Walt Whitman. Both highly sensitive and poetic people. Entertaining and unabashed writers.
this is pretty wild but often true stuff, all that we have come from, the odd confusion expelled from the sun, spinning, wildly offbeat yet centered, movement of the male to the female, reproducing by a magic, vehicles for micro materiality of cells ... one a parody of the next, the differences that make deleuzean reality, the males quests that make no sense to the male, except to continue, and the woman that beholds the miracle of birth, the vessel for a new vessel.
Dude, fuck yeah!
This man going braazy
Cosmic orgone metaphysics:
rotational torsion fields spinning around the central pole of the world - like a maypole ritual...
Was Bataille "more advanced" than the suppressed scientists of the 20th century (Tesla, Reich, Abrahms, etc.)?
Is there a poet's role at the very heart of kept secret science technologies?
There is definitely something going on here.
Solar Bussy UwU
The helioepiphanal proktosis possessed by this arch materialist proktophone has lead to an apt titling of this work…
The Void separated into Mot the God of Destruction and El the God of Creation. El turned themselve into the material universe wherein they also appears as an avatar. Mot infiltrated the material world, destroying it slowly. However El is constantly creating new existence. They're at the same pace but El had a headstart, making existence possible.
Freudian Coprophilliac Alchemical Gnosticism
Anyone else tired of getting shitted on by The Sun?
"Gold is the sky; it concentrates power in its purest state..."
"I stand before the sun, rise up and see the shape of things to come..."
"The Angels kiss our souls in bliss; measure the extent of a dizzying descent down the anal staircase..."
"circle within circles..."
the solar what?!
C'mon!!!
4:20 i was standing in front of the mirror
mmmmmmm
I like trains
What nonsense. I truly don’t get the fascination with Bataille. That poor man must have suffered from such unimaginable mental anguish. The reader did a very nice job though. Despite my dislike for Bataille’s fever dreams, I appreciate your channels efforts to publicize his work. Thanks.
I think my appreciation of Bataille's work comes after seeing they way he was utilized by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus. For me, this essay is a series of pulsating desiring-machines or partial-objects. In terms of the style Bataille utilizes here, I think he endeavors to either create or actualize a sense capable of connecting these machines rather than serving up a dry explication of expenditure--he's expending in the act of writing!
I think that’s a very accurate assessment. Most people’s, that is most non French librarians with a fetish for eggs and Catholic priests, non sequiturs are nowhere near as interesting as Bataille’s. I do think it’s a fine line between George’s maniacal narrative expenditure, and a regular old trolling CZcams comment though. But being that he’s very influential and still not as well known as the others you mentioned, it’s important to discuss his work. Thanks again, really like your channel.
@@AcidHorizon wonderfully concise explanation that sums up my own thoughts on Bataille in a way I hadn’t fully articulated before. I’ll definitely be borrowing this from you! Cheers 🍻
Bataille undoubtedly suffered from mental anguish, it penetrates through his writing, and you can even see the pain in his eyes in that one interview about Literature and Evil he did. However - with this text, it is strong for its poetic power. I wouldn't think of it as a philosophical treatise. Since this was the first work by Bataille that I read it's only after familiarizing myself with his more thorough works that I realized that all of his key concepts appear here in a more fragmented, poetic manner.
It is important to understand that the man also was an anthropologist, wrote countless brilliant essays and books, actively fought fascism, and his contribution to 20th century thought simply cannot be overstated. He was a brilliant, brilliant man and I suggest giving him another chance - some of his writings are profoundly coherent.
@@locksh You're right about his influence on the 20th century. And it's important that his contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th and 21st centuries be discussed in more detail. Certainly more than normally occurs in an into to continental philosophy course. But I still can't help but object to thinking that a limit experience that springs from such a profane and sometimes obviously violent imagination, is radical or groundbreaking in any sense. His anthropology, specifically his writings about Aztec human sacrifice, in my opinion, just allow him to indulge his bloody fantasies. And sadly many continental thinkers and others, Foucault and Mishima for example, took these fantasies seriously and it lead them to some pretty dark places in their writings. All of Mishima and Foucault's writings on the Iranian revolution to be specific.