#death and sensuality

[reterritorialisation]

Excerpt from Death and Sensuality by Georges Battaille, translated to English by Mary Dalwood

#georges bataille #death and sensuality #mary dalwood

[incure]

"Nothing could stop Satan from being divine, but this enduring truth was denied with the rigours of torment."

Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille.

#Death and Sensuality #Georges Bataille #Quotes

[elishanelsonfanacct]

Georges Bataille, tr. Mary Dalwood, from Erotism: Death & Sensuality

#georges bataille #death and sensuality #eroticism #quote #lit #words

[virgin-martyr]

Georges Bataille, excerpt from Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo

#Georges Bataille #theory #death and sensuality #on beauty

[supersonic1994]

death and sensuality, george bataille

#I’m sick all I can think about is hannibal while reading this section #georges bataille #death and sensuality #xx

[lilith-the-fish]

"I am going on tumblr dot com to look up a quote: 'Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it'" - me

"Fuck does that mean. Don't answer that, I don't wanna know, it was rhetorical." - the love of my life

#death and sensuality #george bataille

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

But only secondarily is transgression an action undertaken because of its usefulness. In war, in sacrifice or in orgies, the human mind arranged a convulsive explosion, banking on the real or imaginary result. War is not a political enterprise in origin, nor sacrifice a piece of magic. Similarly the orgy did not originate in the desire for abundant crops. The origins of war, sacrifice and orgy are identical; they spring from the existence of taboos set up to counter liberty in murder or sexual violence. These taboos inevitably shaped the explosive surge of transgression. All this does not mean that recourse was never had to the orgy--or war, or sacrifice for the sake of the results rightly or wrongly attributed to them. But in that case it was a secondary and inevitable business of frantic violence hurled in among the wheels of human activity as organised by work.

Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo, Georges Bataille (1962)

#I have my doubts as to the historicity of this claim but also idk much about Continental Philosophy #nevertheless interesting framework #this is a really good book highly recommend #georges bataille #death and sensuality #I Read

[godsopenwound]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality

#georges bataille #erotism: death and sensuality #what is poetry which does not save nations or people? #m

[arsanimarum]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

#georges bataille #erotism: death and sensuality #literature #bibliophile #upload #quotes #literary #french literature #eroticism #death #on death

[reterritorialisation]

Excerpt from Death and Sensuality by Georges Battaille, translated to English by Mary Dalwood

#georges bataille #death and sensuality #eroticism

[daweyt]

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

#georges bataille #erotism: death and sensuality

[decamarks]

i have not painted in... ~3 years. anyway here's a ferryman holding one of his many idols

#my art #ultrakill #ferryman ultrakill #note: the big image is actually an unfinished version of it because i could NOT get a good picture of the final one -_- #i definitely had NO idea what i was doing. but it was still fun! and now i can look over my shoulder and see my dear ferryman on the wall. #obviously it's just very charming to have a painting of a character who's the subject of like. 3 different in-game paintings. heeheehoo #presumably ferrymen would be responsible for MOST of the art in-universe? like all the gabriel murals and statues surely. that's cute to me #they have nothing to do with all their obol so the ferryman economy consists of them repeatedly commissioning each other back and forth #to paint portraits of either them or gabriel. or of them being sensually caressed by gabriel. #after the death of mankind a ferryman's merit is judged entirely by how lovingly they can render gabriel's midriff #... i think i had a point i wanted to make but it's just entirely lost now. sorry

[gardenofnoah]

all the eroticism in rough sex has gone away for me. treat me gently and i will be BRICKED up

#this website is so god damn sterile i can’t take it anymore #give me sensuality or give me death

[glittergroovy]

#georges bataille #gif warning #blinkies #back on my bullshit #death & sensuality #books #philosophy #450x60px #personal fav #flashing lights