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Preparing for Utopia

Posted on March 5, 2012 by tmlavenz

In a dialog entitled “Something’s Missing,” Ernst Bloch and Theodore Adorno agree that there shall be no positive conception or vision of utopia. Adorno even links this interdiction to the biblical one against graven images. Utopian thinking then consists in … Continue reading →

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Update from Hell

Posted on February 24, 2012 by tmlavenz

This update from Hell is brought to you as a footnote to Georges Bataille’s book “Erotism.” The day will come when the measured approach betrays you. You’ll want to do violence to something: violence itself will prove unsuppressible, insufferable. And … Continue reading →

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Negligible Differences

Posted on February 22, 2012 by tmlavenz

God isn’t humanity’s limit-point, though humanity’s limit-point is divine. Or put it this way– humanity is divine when experiencing limits. –Georges Bataille. First Axiom: There is no such thing as a negligible difference. But all differences are, in the end, negligible. … Continue reading →

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