Is Death really the true continuity ?
continuity?
>>25597218The concept of continuity by Bataille, Search about it
Read Story of the Eye, crazy book. Was Bataille goat?
>>25597188That reminds me of that one time when I wanked to maiden and death concept
>>25597245yes
>>25597188I struggle to conceptualise death as any kind of a relief from suffering because surely if there's no perception in death surely I won't experience it being over? So for me it'll be the same (to all intents and purposes, only) as if whatever I last felt had never stopped?
>>25597224I don't think I've ever heard Bataille talk about continuity and I've read most of his books
>>25597493It’s a return to the inorganic exteriority from whence we came, ie. A return to the absolute lack of sense and awareness in inert materiality. It’s not a relief from suffering as much as being completely absolved of the faculties that make suffering possible.>>25597188Arguably it’s just a retread of early medieval ideas about the cyclical nature of life and death, albeit coloured by the influence of Freud and the notion of the death drive. Bataille is still great tho
