Wei Lin’s Reviews > The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism > Status Update
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is on page 53 of 248
ch3 trangression = the base, surrender (not agency)
45 law as discontinuity, isolation as quantiative (??)
47 - the privileged elite is inclined to waste their riches on war - why? (is this just a historical observation?)
49 - scopophilia's complicity with representation (=ontology)
(I would call this the digital ala Galloway on Laruelle)
50 - Kantianism = our philosophical actuality
// Fisher's gothic flatline
— Jul 02, 2025 07:27AM
45 law as discontinuity, isolation as quantiative (??)
47 - the privileged elite is inclined to waste their riches on war - why? (is this just a historical observation?)
49 - scopophilia's complicity with representation (=ontology)
(I would call this the digital ala Galloway on Laruelle)
50 - Kantianism = our philosophical actuality
// Fisher's gothic flatline
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Wei Lin
is on page 117 of 248
91-binary involves a transcendent
92 - autobiography as life hemorrhaeged in writing (tensions between negentropies?)
94 - communication = a sort of we are a mindless swarm/legion
95 - repetition wrecks an ouevre
101 - will to power as genealogy
102 recurrence=abortion of transcendence
The labyrinth (on space)
117 scale/accretion
— Jul 12, 2025 05:18PM
92 - autobiography as life hemorrhaeged in writing (tensions between negentropies?)
94 - communication = a sort of we are a mindless swarm/legion
95 - repetition wrecks an ouevre
101 - will to power as genealogy
102 recurrence=abortion of transcendence
The labyrinth (on space)
117 scale/accretion
Wei Lin
is on page 91 of 248
It gets REALLY good here
75 - Nick Land here champions the sea as the site of annihilation
81: despair is the absence of hope/lure
87 - on the digital (binary)
88 "Phallus is the great security of male-dominated culture, and beyond it lies an ocean of loss as desolate as zero."
89 - the skeleton - it is transmissible, preservible vs the decaying flesh
91 - binary and a transcendent vs immanence ala bataille
— Jul 09, 2025 07:18PM
75 - Nick Land here champions the sea as the site of annihilation
81: despair is the absence of hope/lure
87 - on the digital (binary)
88 "Phallus is the great security of male-dominated culture, and beyond it lies an ocean of loss as desolate as zero."
89 - the skeleton - it is transmissible, preservible vs the decaying flesh
91 - binary and a transcendent vs immanence ala bataille
Wei Lin
is on page 74 of 248
ch4 some 'theory-fiction' thing
ch5 on death
58 how despair differs from doubt
ch6 on time
64 what is the diff between the One and zero?
68 on synchronicity // God
72 annihilation is not agency but cessation of agency
Similar idea to earlier chapters on Bataille's general economy view overall
Also possible to see how Fisher's gothic flatline idea was conceived
— Jul 03, 2025 04:30PM
ch5 on death
58 how despair differs from doubt
ch6 on time
64 what is the diff between the One and zero?
68 on synchronicity // God
72 annihilation is not agency but cessation of agency
Similar idea to earlier chapters on Bataille's general economy view overall
Also possible to see how Fisher's gothic flatline idea was conceived
Wei Lin
is on page 40 of 248
ch2 20-39
Bataille solar/general economy
23 - mimicry?
24-25 scholarship as sport?
25 thrust (to engender riddles)
26-30 entropy as baseline, 'ontologies' as negentropies (quantifications of energy)
30-32 reinterpreting Nietzche and Freud ala libidinal energetics
35 - communicative vs isolative tendencies
36 - organisms produce more energy than necessary to survival
36-38 // marx, labour power
39 capital=anti-culture
— Jul 01, 2025 01:39AM
Bataille solar/general economy
23 - mimicry?
24-25 scholarship as sport?
25 thrust (to engender riddles)
26-30 entropy as baseline, 'ontologies' as negentropies (quantifications of energy)
30-32 reinterpreting Nietzche and Freud ala libidinal energetics
35 - communicative vs isolative tendencies
36 - organisms produce more energy than necessary to survival
36-38 // marx, labour power
39 capital=anti-culture
Wei Lin
is on page 38 of 248
Note: chatgpt is helpful for quick reminders on basic concepts that I am not familiar with (e.g. here the notion of labour power ala Marx)
— Jul 01, 2025 01:19AM
