Unedited; please read forgivingly for I have transgressed. God is described by Peter Bebergal as “the supreme referent” and the death of god, then, is the removal of this supreme referent. which gives rise to the question; what provides identity to the body without the existence of the supreme referent? Transgression then is the interrogation [...]
Here I am attempting to get a handle on Battaille’s concept (as it’s read by Foucault) of transgression and the death of god. Garth Gillan states: “the concept of transgression says that meaning is confronted not as an absolute transcendence grounding language, but in the limits of meaning. Language is the existence of sense in [...]
Now I’m onto A Meditation on Transgression. A new article but my reading so far has turned my thoughts on the death of god upside down. I’ll keep reading.
This article could be worth a read at some point. If writing is a contemplation of death then it is also the killing of god and the removal of limits. In the absence of the writing self to the audience, which, in turn has not been born at the moment of writing, the subject is [...]
I’m working on a concept proposed by Battaile that transgression, limits, and the death of god are connected. A friend sent me a link to a post on Larval Subjects, some of which I quote here. “As such, the death of God signifies first and most fundamentally the end of the primacy of the One [...]
I crossed a threshold yesterday. I’m now over the 10 000 word hurdle. It’s kind of funny because I’m now getting concerned that I’m not going to fit everything in. I read an article last week that had me a bit excited about the intersection of transgression and subjectivity. In particular this idea of the [...]
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