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The Thirst for Annihilation

: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings

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“There is no answer. Merely the blank violence of the sun.”

— Nick Land, amazon.com

Tagged: Matt. 27:46-49, Groundless Ground, No Answer From The World, Nihilism

“I dream of the unstable presence of waters interior to water.”

— Georges Bataille, amazon.com

Tagged: Water, Unstable, Fluidity, Change Within The Folds of Change

“What is new to modernity is a rate of the obsolescence of truth.”

— Nick Land, amazon.com

Tagged: Modernity, Fluid Knowledge

“Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcenden…”

— Nick Land, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Kant's Christian Fleeing