/lit/ - Literature

>>12662515
>I knew you were referring to him, I was just jesting.
sorry, i have a hard time gauging tone and other things on the old yak-milking board sometimes.

anyways go here. i haven't read any of his fiction, it's apparently some of the most depraved shit ever written in France (which is saying something). and Land's book on him is...not bad, it's Land so it's worth reading and he's got some awesome lines about Kant and thanatology and so on, but overall not as interesting as FN or his other essays. for me the Accursed Share was enough, there are excerpts from it in here.

https://monoskop.org/images/0/06/Botting_Fred_Wilson_Scott_eds_The_Bataille_Reader.pdf

the whole story, really, has to be read. even the guys who to me are not as interesting, if only because their influence has been so far-reaching: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault. the more you read of these guys the more the picture assembles itself into one kind of collective story of madness and emancipation, romance and fury. the story of continental philosophy doesn't belong to the left or the right, it belongs to those poor bedraggled fucks who survive it and also those who do not read any of it and are mysteriously harried around the earth by the ghosts of the 19C and 20C. which brings us to where we are today.

>>12662530
>Read Thirst for Anihilation, then read Machinic Desire, then tell me who "drove Land insane"
i don't know what you're getting at. do you want me to say Land's dealer? he apparently was just way too good at his job too. Land drove himself nuts, they all did. they all took a fuckload of drugs and listened to jungle and had a hell of a good (and horrible) time. the later essays in FN, Vauung et al are hardly paeans to the path of excess and the palace of wisdom: he basically confesses to having become a horrible fucking mess.

it's the same thing with HST, who i used to like reading also. he makes the drugs look good, but obviously he ruins his own life with them also. Land drove himself insane and paid the cost. now he is who he is. he has given us some pretty fucking fabulous philosophy to meme about, tho. i'm glad somebody wrote those books, and mildly jealous that it wasn't me. but he did it better than i would have anyways.

bataille writes about gambling and chance iirc