From Bataille to Blanchot: The Negative Community and the Death of the Other

[@Kholan95]

I'm so here for this

[@arturrr3465]

Great video, also maybe a bit of Levinas and his notion of the absolute separateness of the Other would help

[@iCirith]

very cool, Craig. I wish I had more input on this beyond "I need to read Blanchot", lol. have a lovely rest of your week :D

[@LEPHTHAND]

I recommend this book!

[@dethkon]

Besides the three interviews about him on Hermitix, which are all excellent in their own way, Oskar has a fantastic reading of _The Song of The Sirens_ up, and a channel called “classic audio archive” has a very good reading of _Madness of the Day_ (my favorite so far). But that’s all the Blanchot I’ve been able to find on KZbin; I loved it so much that I’m desperate to find some more myself!

[@ashwednesdaylacroix6649]

Great video. Subscribed

[@LEPHTHAND]

Thank you! Glad you find value in this work.

[@stupedcraig]

Good stuff! Cool name!

[@giannoutakis]

I wonder if a connection can be made between the concepts of Blanchot's desoeuvrement and Simondon's disindividuation that occurs amid transindividual processes of phycic and collective individuation.

[@LEPHTHAND]

I'd have to look more closely at Simondon, but it's important for Nancy and Blanchot that the negativity of désœuvrement not simply fold into a dialectical relationship with a constituent or positive gesture. I would argue this is the trouble with the move they are making: you can't just have one side of an oppositional logic. That said, there's more going on than a simple inversion of a framework; they are attempting to use the negativity to unsettle a deeply entrenched metaphysical habit expressed in and through the constitution of community. Here I suppose I am more Deleuzian, and I think I am more sympathetic to the language of counter-effectuation than inoperativity.

[@Nilnaberius6727]

Second ^_^

[@dethkon]

Better late than never 👍

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

The sick commenting on the healthy?

[@dethkon]

Who better? After all, the sick were once healthy, too…

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

@@dethkon not if the lepers celebrate their disease and point their rotting fingers at the healthy, jealous as the grandiose pageantty of life marches on

[@infinidimensionalinfinitie5021]

hey; it's a comment; of uncertainty; this makes a lot of balancing needs sense; not just in the professed and believed "needs"; of "extroverted" expression; but the existential infinidimensional needs; unseen; of negativity inherent force(s); anti-sense senses; as all of humanity and species sovereignty collide; in a chaotic scale invariance; of infinitii;

[@uncleobscurenobody8861]

Just talk like a normal person, you aren't impressing anybody with this Nick Land drivel

[@infinidimensionalinfinitie5021]

@@uncleobscurenobody8861 stop talking like a normal person; and be more like me;

[@dethkon]

I liked your poem, thanks!