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In Memoriam Georges Bataille
Today, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Georges Bataille. I wrote and recorded the following lecture for presentation at Acephalia Encyclopaedica: Conversations on Georges Bataille, which was held today in Portugal.
My reflections take Bataille's final text, the preface to The Impossible, as their point of departure. The preface ( Read more... ) -
Binghamton Books Advertising
We've got a lot of auctions going on this week, and so far the data indicates that a large volume of sales is well within the realm of possibility. I am writing to ask you, if you have the time, to help me conduct an advertising blitz to drive up sales (if everything being watched sells, we stand to more than double our revenue). The next 48 ( Read more... ) -
Georges Bataille - Le Coupable - 1944
Ending soon: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230445648145&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT- Bataille - Le Coupable - 1944 1st Edition - Only one more copy left on the market. PLEASE PLEASE pimp this listing! I'll owe you a big one!
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Binghamton Books
We've just reached 50 books listed for sale, ranging in price from $2.50 to one as high as $500, with most starting around $10-20. Undercutting the professional antiquarians is an artform. In addition to our new web address binghamtonbooks.com, we now have presences both on facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/Binghamton-NY/Binghamton-Books/ ( Read more... ) -
Bookshop Domain Name
Now you can access our online bookshop directly, at binghamtonbooks.com. New inventory posted nearly daily. Tonight I'm listing two by Yeats, two volume sets of Rabelais and André Gide, two books by Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as books by Sartre, Paul Eluard, Rimbaud and Richard Wagner. And much more to come. -
To X, X(1), X(2) ... (a poem in prose)
Past moments pattern and limn present-future moments, mobile and multiple, already immanent. There I can discover you, your infinite singularity and substitutability, that which I most love in you; I can love most, however, in the freedom of virtuality,
possibility and in my future-imaginary.
Recoiling from actuality, remaining in a moment ( Read more... ) -
Poetry?
The verbal substratum gives way ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
If I knew what I wanted to say I would speak. If I believed in the power of my words, I would speak. If I knew just how I feel, I would be able to find words in which to speak. Yet emotion resists all efforts to extract its precision, the innumerable shades which paint experience. A color without color better expresses what is felt than words - ( Read more... )
