DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

dagNotes: Alienated Solitude

Solitude in Bataille is not individualist, which is alienated solitude. This is very important.

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no-vvolf:

everyday ask yourself this question: how can i destroy this world/system/totality with the amount of power it grants/concedes to me?

I like this because it evokes community. Implies the problem Bataille finds in Nietzsche as he relates to Nietzsche. It’s quite anti-individualist provocation.

their the object of my satisfaction; i’m the product of my satisfaction

cosplay would be so much more interesting to me if it weren’t about finding yet another way to be passively organized in the free market.

The speed of exchange and distribution of objects in capitalism certainly encourages people to trust efficiency—not being able to think about but to trust that what’s occurring is going well because it goes at all—resulting in a frustrating distrust for those individuals, their organizations, and processes who slow things down. One need not reject technology as a result, or society. One need simply critically examine the means of exchange and transform its social order.

Anti-capitalism has a purpose. It’s not everything, but it’s something. In addition, this troubles our often dumb reliance on science and scientism that seemingly has rules that theory should not touch. Holy Science.

Fandom is full of excuses for oppression, but that’s what happens when you place your faith in a product manufactured to make lots of dough and not in the community of people you actually depend on.

deleuzefightsback:

Game Of Thrones (experts) - “Second Sons” (for experts)

dagseoul:

Are you fucking kidding me? The one reason why there’s boobs all over Game of Thrones and not male parts is because the fantasy genre is loaded with sexism and a popular capitalist mannerism when criticizing something we know is wrong but so many people enjoy anyway is to find a way to sell it both to the people who complain about it and to the people who get off on it. 

So, back to selling ads, then. Ok. And leave the critical theory to others.

What I mean in the emphasized text is that we can see precisely who is left out with/in the critique and distribution of the products. PRECISELY the women who are oppressed. That’s how it works.

WARNING: A GUY AT THE AV CLUB WORRIES ABOUT PROPER AND IMPROPER BOOBS. Todd VanDerWerff says FOR EXPERTS ONLY 

Are you fucking kidding me? The one reason why there’s boobs all over Game of Thrones and not male parts is because the fantasy genre is loaded with sexism and a popular capitalist mannerism when criticizing something we know is wrong but so many people enjoy anyway is to find a way to sell it both to the people who complain about it and to the people who get off on it. 

So, back to selling ads, then. Ok. And leave the critical theory to others.

AV CLUB IS DUMB BRICKS THROWN AT YOUR STUPID HIPSTER AETHOS. 

Shucks, ah never did meet a nerd who could disagree with something he likes except men who think they are above dwelling in the human shit of the everyday.

quick rant and then back to the bataille.

hate for black men is nothing new. even the tumblr left uses all sorts of racist coding in its propaganda contra Obama. (like you really need to publish something that shows you don’t agree with Obama bc everyone who follows your blog is worried you might. ftw.)

but these white boys really, really hate women. just wait a bit. the right is already getting all heated up about hillary clinton. this guy wants to shoot her “in the vagina”. soon, the left will catch-up.

for there’s not much that white radicals won’t do to make a stupid point about how much they don’t like somebody, especially a woman.

for you

if you want a postcard, send me a mailing address. i’ll include mine on the postcard, and we can exchange lines from time to time, if you like.

i do this with folks from time to time. writing a thought or observation or poem or making a collage on a postcard and mailing it to folks i only know via the postcard-ing.

as i’m writing a lot lately, for me it provides a way to channel all the excess that comes with writing in a way that is not possessive.

i don’t need your name or anything, just your address. send me an ask or fanmail.

I’m loving that his is happening (this October) and with the care of Hejinian and Watten. Great. But it will cost $100. It’s an ebook for $100.

Nietzsche & Bataille 

"Nothing human necessitates a community of those desiring human-ness. Anything taking us down that road will require combined efforts­—or at least continuity from one person to the next—not limiting ourselves to the possibilities of a single person. To cut my ties with what surrounds me makes this solitude of mine a mistake. A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this—to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.

Sentences will be consigned to museums if the emptiness in writing persists.

Currently we take pride in this—that nothing can be understood till first of all deformed, emptied of content, by one of two mechanisms—propaganda and writing!

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To live out possibility to the utmost means many will have to change—taking it on as something outside of them, no longer depending on any one of them.

Nietzsche never doubted that if the possibility he recommended was going to exist, it would require community.

Desire for community was constantly on his mind."

—Georges Bataille. From Part 1, Section III of “Mr. Nietzsche” from On Nietzsche

Part 1, “Mr. Nietzsche”, is basically quotes from Nietzsche’s Will to Power and one from Gay Science with a smattering of intentions from Bataille—setting up the book as both a defense of Nietzsche and of Bataille’s own sense of Nietzsche.

"The understanding I encourage involves a similar absence of outcome
and takes a similar enthusiasm for torment for granted. In this sense I think the idea of the eternal return should be reversed. It’s not a promise of infinite and lacerating repetitions: It’s what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every system, don’t forget, these moments are viewed and given as means: Every moral system proclaims that ‘each moment of life ought to be motivated.’ Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends-thus first of all destroys it. Return is the mode of drama, the mask of human entirety, a human desert wherein each moment is unmotivated."

Georges Bataille, from his Preface to On Nietzsche

"If anything of moment results—so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it.

There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world. If there is an ocean it is here. Or rather, the whole world is between: Yesterday, tomorrow, Europe, Asia, Africa,—all things removed and impossible, the tower of the church at Seville, the Parthenon."

William Carlos Williams, the opening to Spring and All (1923)

more than ideas, things: moment, whole; entirety & totality

Williams wrote of a “new kind of murder” and a “formality of boredom” in Spring and All — the imagination “intoxicated by prohibitions”

Williams and Bataille two decades later (1923~1945) similarly interpreted Nietzschean concepts.