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  • The yoga of despair

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 13:33 in bataille

    This mastery of our innermost movements, which in the long run we can acquire, is well known: it is yoga. But yoga is given in the form of coarse recipes, embellished with pedantism and with bizarre statements. And yoga, practiced for its own sake, a...

  • X’s yoga

    Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 14:47 in writing, x, bataille

    X wants to renounce hope, he tells me. He decided this yesterday while he got drunk and watched sitcoms. He wants to revolt against discourse like Bataille, he says, break down the refuge of the ‘I’. He wants to learn the yoga of despair...

  • Revolt

    Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 14:46 in bataille

    I refused the reduction of experience to the poverty which I am. Even my ‘poverty’, in its own interest, demanded that I emerge from it. Revolt often has humble beginnings, but once begun doesn’t stop: I first wanted to return from a contemplat...