Thursday, January 27, 2005

The accursed share

"Humanity exploits given material resources, but by restricting them as it does to a resolution of the immediate difficulties it encounters (a resolution which it has hastily had to define as an ideal), it assigns to the forces it employs an end which they cannot have. Beyond our immediate ends, man's activity in fact pursues the useless and infinite fulfillment of the universe." - Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share

Echoes of Judeo-Christian God. But Bataille is so fascinating.

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