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Apocalyptic Imaginary
The Best of Modern
Mythology, 2011
Writing by:
James Curcio P. Emerson Williams Rowan Tepper Mr. VI Rusty Shackleford David Metcalfe Wes Unruh Cat Vincent Gunther Sonenfeld Dr Adventure! Special Thanks for donating $100 or more to 2011's Mythos Media Fundraiser: Arild Stromsvag, Renee Beattie, Judith Curcio, Nikolai Nothos, Fenwick Rysen, Joy and Benjamin Warren.
Conversations with: Aunia Kahn Charles Eisenstein Raymond Salvadore Harmon Layout, Design and Curation James Curcio
later, quickly, all that will remain of us will be an absent memory of our inability to imagine this moment which, henceforth, we will have surpassed: this unimaginable world into which I cannot enter other than by refusing to imagine it, laughing at myself, repudiating it... What does this (book) mean? Would it already be for human intelligence what this world that shatters it is? A betrayal of man by the world, or a betrayal of the world by man? ...Unhappy, am I not in each point similar to you, complicit with each blunder? (164-5)
What produces the illusion, the myth of transcendence? It is the capacity to think in terms of beings, the possibility of naming, of objectifying reality, and in the Sartrean version, women. His womanizing was consonant with his insistence on transcendence. As subject, he could not avoid objectifying them. To do otherwise would have been in bad faith. It is also a matter of unification, and as Bataille wrote in the unpublished philosophical epilogue to his book On Nietzsche,
...it is the possibility of being named that is decisive... I call being (a being) a movement that closes in upon itself, unifying limited elements. The act of naming makes a given unity/singularity into a being, a being is inasmuch as it can be distinguished from every other being of its kind. The simplest components of the material world, elementary particles, such as atoms, molecules, etc, cannot be considered as beings in that one cannot name this atom here, that molecule there. [But] a cell, an animal, a colony or animal society are beings. (OC VI 443)
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