no ninja edit, dude. stop playing the disgruntled scholar who knows better and start saying what you think.Bored013 wrote:Ugh...terrible Ninja edit. Go to sleep.caldwell.the.great wrote:I'm spot on is what I am
if you don't see glimmers of what he's going to write later on in that book, I don't know what to tell you to convince you that they're there; his obsessions with energy, fascism, sexual violence, death, and "acephalism," as well as the foundations for his pseudo-poem-essay-thing "Formless" (informé), and his general economy. I've read several essays that conjecture relationships between Story of the Eye and Inner Experience, and do a fairly convincing job of making the connections.
there's even a hint of his Nietzschean obsession swimming about in the background, especially when the main character is gazing at the stars...
we could make a blueprint of his career from different chapters in that story; of course, it all gets fleshed out and becomes infinitely more nuanced... and the political aspect is essentially missing, so I guess it's not a complete outline, really... but all the ingredients are hiding in that book - and once you've read a huge chunk of his theoretical writings, going backing to that book is a bit of shock. It's haphazard, not nearly as poetic as Madame Edwarda, but perfect in its scope. He knew what he was doing very early on, and it only took time for him to elaborate on those early notions. I stand by that.
C'mon, man.
I can't believe this thought shocks you so much; in fact, I remember you agreeing with it at some point in a conversation we had somewhere. I suppose I see what you're upset about, but you're either being too literal or we disagree about everything Bataille does.
Take a step back, look at his entire career, read more of his shorter pieces, go back through The Accursed Share, and then jump back into Story of the Eye. Think about general economy, dépense, informé, The Solar Anus ("It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another"), and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and then tell me that Story of the Eye doesn't present those ideas in a semi-narrative dress. I'm not sure what you think The Story of the Eye is about because all you've done is express your disapproval, but I'd love to hear why it's so crazy to see the beginnings of his theory in that book.
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