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Up next on LEPHT HAND is Simone Weil and an interview with The Shade of Kenneth. We review the life and ideas of the philosopher-mystic, while exploring connection to Bataille and other contemporaries.

at your service

For Bataille, structuring our lives around various ideas of "project" entails a deferral, if not a betrayal, of existence. From 'Inner Experience':

What is a depth? A surface plunging downward, upward, inward, outward. What is a surface? A table where gravity and the void pen a tenuous truce.

"Human misery would be intolerable if it were not diluted in time. We have to prevent it from being diluted in order that it should be intolerable." -Simone Weil

thank you!

just wakin' up in the mornin' gotta thank god i don't know, but today seems kinda odd

“I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.” -- Georges Bataille

I'm just about done with my first full-draft of my article for the Routledge Companion on Simone Weil

i dream a lot

used book haul. mostly poetry. I’ve read one of the Franz Wright’s before.

Had a tremendous discussion with Claire Colebrook today on becoming-woman, “becoming-“, minoritarian masculinity, anti-identity, becoming-imperceptible, anti-ocularity, anti-capitalism, and the apocalypse.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15th in CENTRAL PA Acid Horizon will be joined by Josh Wretzel to discuss Hegel and the "coolness" of the absolute. How is the absolute calm, contemplative, and unhurried? Beer with entry. Join us or share: acidhorizonpodcast.com/events

Just finished recording a massive interview on Simone Weil with The Shade of Kenneth! We covered a lot and this will be a kind of one stop shop for getting a basic orientation with her work and life.

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At 2PM today, we are going to livestream our interview with Claire Colebrook on becoming-woman and becoming-imperceptible in the work of Deleuze and Guattari on Instagram, Twitch, and Twitter. The video will also be available on YouTube at that time.