What would Georges do?
“I have just expressed myself in a hopelessly abstract manner. I understand that I have just given definitions that are very hard to understand. I only have one way to excuse myself, to justify having recourse to such muddled and apparently unwarranted constructions. I can only try to use this indefensible tool as a key. If a door that had always remained shut opens - no matter how unwieldy the method used - the one who turns the key will appear human again.”
- Georges Bataille
‘Attraction and Repusion I’
in Denis Hollier’s (1979) The College of Sociology 1937-9:107
Image: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Bataille Monument (2002).