#lotringer

Artaud was capable of laughing about his own collapse.

The great writing - delusional, prophetic - is that without barriers.

Just like delirium, the plague pushes images and ideas that are mere possibilities to the extreme, and thus erases the distinction between what exists and what does not exist.

The secret of theory is that truth doesn't exist. You can't confront it in any way. The only thing you can do is play with some kind of provocative logic. Truth constitutes a space that can no longer be occupied. The whole strategy is, indeed, not to occupy it, but to work around it so that others come to occupy it. It means creating a void so that others will fall into it.

Bataille didn't need to quote Nietzsche's Genealogy in his essay on Nietzsche any more than Foucault in his Discipline and Punish. Foucault, because he used the Genealogy as a tool; Bataille, because he turned himself into one.