Tag Archives: Georges Bataille

Reading the times with Alain Badiou

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Julius Gavroche

Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too. Mikhail Bakunin, The Reaction in Germany (1842) … Continue reading →

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Elements for a cartography of belonging to a group

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Julius Gavroche

An essay ostensibly concerned with theatre becomes the occasion for a Spinozan and Deluzian inspired reflection on human community beyond the opposing, formal conceptions of community as an accidental aggregate of individuals or as a fusional collectivity bound by a … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (3): Georges Bataille and the anarchy of life

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be smashed… Buenaventura Durruti It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator … Continue reading →

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With and beyond anti-fascism (1)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Julius Gavroche

… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading →

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