#georges bataille

[godsopenwound]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality

[sicknessinmotion]

my father burned until i was burning, too

georges bataille — amatullah bourdon — in the blood by john mayer — sophocles, transl. anne carson — schuyler peck.

[motifcollector]

THE LESSON OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS, OF GREEK TRAGEDY, AND ULTIMATELY, OF ALL RELIGIONS, IS THAT THERE IS AN INSTINCTIVE TENDENCY TOWARDS DIVINE INTOXICATION WHICH THE RATIONAL WORLD OF CALCULATION CANNOT BEAR.* IF YOURE LISTENING!! IF YOU EVEN CARE!!!!

*Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

[arsanimarum]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[thirdity]

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.

Georges Bataille, Guilty

[daweyt]

— Georges Bataille, from “Erotism: Death and Sensuality”, originally published c. 1957 and tr. Mary Dalwood.

[cor-ardens-archive]

georges bataille | the company of wolves

[crucifiedlovers]

I drink from your gash I spread your naked legs I open them like a book where I read what kills me.

Georges Bataille, "I Place my Cock" from The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille (trans. Mark Spitzer)

[deltarebelsandpaper]

AKEPHALOS

DEATH TO FASCISM

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

[elishanelsonfanacct]

the dawn, georges bataille

[degenderates]

Guilty, Georges Bataille (tr. Bruce Boone)

[heavensickness]

Jamaica Kincaid // Mary Ruefle // Georges Bataille // Eduardo C. Corral // Ocean Vuong // Amatullah Bourdon

[arsanimarum]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[thirdity]

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Georges Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

[godsopenwound]

“I love your ferocity,” she tells him, “swear to me that one day I also shall be your victim. (…) that is the only way I want to die; to have my death the result of a crime is an idea that sets my head spinning.”

— Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality

[corruptedtwinks]

Icon For Hire - Happy Hurts /// Warsan Shire - teaching my mother how to give birth /// Georges Bataille - Guilty /// Jessica Katoff /// Henry Rollins - The Portable Henry Rollins /// Blythe Baird - If My Body Could Speak /// Mary Oliver - Summer Morning /// Icon For Hire - Happy Hurts ///