I'm not sure why he'd choose god to describe something no one else would term god
It's kind of complicated and drawing on a lot of previous philosophy. I think what he's really talking about is the Kantian noumena or thing in itself. IDK how to explain this succinctly but he calls this "god" in reference to spinoza's god of nature, because nietzsche and schopenhauer. I can go into more detail if you'd like me to.
I believe it's in /him/ from childhood tho
Yeah, Bataille has a tendency to universalise his own experience. I believe the point of inner experience is in part him justifying this, something along the lines of "thus far philosophers have privileged knowledge over experience but here's why I think experience has things knowledge can't do", but I'd have to read the whole book to be work out his reasoning.
read from "Vangelis music" to "The images of DNA"
Definitely a highlight of the book. After finishing Daemon I think my criticism was both too harsh and too unfocused in my blog post. IMO this stuff is definitely extremely compatible with Bataille, you can already imagine conceptualizing the parasite in relation to excess and expenditure, or characterising our relationship to the sun, and I can even see a legitimate politics here. "They have so enslaved us that we believe we’re reproducing ourselves, when in reality, we’re reproducing hidden others within us", this I think aligns somewhat with baudrillard's fatal strategies, although I'm still not that familiar with it so I might be misinterpreting something here. It has a chapter on "ironic strategies", given that direct or indirect resistance from the outside is impossible, the strategy is to ironically affirm from within until the system pushes itself into it's own opposite. There's something to it.
It's kind of complicated and drawing on a lot of previous philosophy. I think what he's really talking about is the Kantian noumena or thing in itself. IDK how to explain this succinctly but he calls this "god" in reference to spinoza's god of nature, because nietzsche and schopenhauer. I can go into more detail if you'd like me to.
Yeah, Bataille has a tendency to universalise his own experience. I believe the point of inner experience is in part him justifying this, something along the lines of "thus far philosophers have privileged knowledge over experience but here's why I think experience has things knowledge can't do", but I'd have to read the whole book to be work out his reasoning.
Definitely a highlight of the book. After finishing Daemon I think my criticism was both too harsh and too unfocused in my blog post. IMO this stuff is definitely extremely compatible with Bataille, you can already imagine conceptualizing the parasite in relation to excess and expenditure, or characterising our relationship to the sun, and I can even see a legitimate politics here. "They have so enslaved us that we believe we’re reproducing ourselves, when in reality, we’re reproducing hidden others within us", this I think aligns somewhat with baudrillard's fatal strategies, although I'm still not that familiar with it so I might be misinterpreting something here. It has a chapter on "ironic strategies", given that direct or indirect resistance from the outside is impossible, the strategy is to ironically affirm from within until the system pushes itself into it's own opposite. There's something to it.