#transgression

[confiturederoses]

Dilara Findikoglu fw24 “Femme Vortex” Collection

#dilara findikoglu #fw24 #rtw24 #ready to wear #femme #divine feminine #avant garde #ethereal #transgression #fashion archive

[tom-isaacs]

36 days - Zhou Jie

I have thought about numerous ways for the opening. I do nothing but just standing and smoking. I wove the wire to make a toy or bed. I lie under the bed. I hide in the toilet. I lie in bed dressed or undressed, etc. When it was only one hour before the opening, I decided to sleep in bed as usual. In the past, I took photos when sleeping in bed. Several days before, I also tried to sleep like this, but only for one hour, not a long time. I felt OK. So it couldn’t be a problem. Two months before the exhibition, I planned to do some exercises to improve immunity, but it turned out that I was too busy working day and night and did not even have time to make love. It lasted until the opening of the exhibition. I was totally exhausted. I thought it was all right. It would be easier for me to fall asleep on the bed made of steel wire. Perhaps it would be a good thing. Dizzy and sleepy, I did not feel like doing anything when it was barely two o’clock in the afternoon. Anyway, I just lay down. I tried different positions but always felt uncomfortable. The head skin was thin, and my head was bulging when I was sleeping on the pillow. I had to put my head on my hand. Then my head felt comfortable, but my hand hurt. I kept moving my bottom to find a comparably flat place. I kept trying and looking for a comfortable place with my eyes closed. In the beginning, I felt it was all right so gradually relaxed. But as time went by, my arms and legs began to tingle, as if my body would split soon.  I felt an intense tingling pinch. I forced myself it until I couldn’t, and then carefully moved a little bit. In fact, during the entire four hours, I did not know whether I was awake or asleep. I was tired and befuddled. I had a real dream, and I laughed in the dream. I knew that my mouth was moving and I laughed. I dreamed of a dog. But I could also feel that Lian Xi repeatedly touched my head and pinched my legs, as if he was checking a body dead or alive. I heard the sound of the shutter and the whisper of people. But it was generally quiet. It seemed that all the people agreed not to wake up the person in bed. I was dazed when Dun Dun told me it was four o’clock, and then I want to turn over because I really could not carry on.  To my surprise, when I turned to the right side, I easily made it without any uncomfortable feeling. On the contrary, it was very comfortable. I quickly made another dream, but it was obscure. Finally, I did not feel painful or numb. I seemed to get used to it. Then I gently moved my legs, and a stabbing pain came to me because my knee hit the tip of a steel wire. Surprisingly, I was totally unaware. I quickly opened my eyes and saw Lian Xi who was crouching beside the bed and gently asked me howpainful and whether I could bear. I wanted to say it did not hurt because I was numb and felt nothing. But thethroat seemed to be foreclosed, and I could not speak. I began to worry, and my throat was immediately choked. Tears flew down like stream. I totally could not help.  I did not want to be seen, and did not like weeping because I feared that the steel wires would rust because of tears. But the more I did not wish to cry, the more tears fell down.  It was nearly six o’clock in the afternoon when I got up. My shoulder and bottom were aching here and there. I carefully got out of bed but was still scratched by the wire. I got dressed, went to the wall and quickly lit acigarette. I could not stop sobbing. Hong asked me if it was because of the pain. I said no, but I did not know the exact reason.  At that moment, there was nothing but the sound of thunder and wind and rain in the exhibition hall. My headbulged. Later, I took a bath, put on pyjamas and lay down. I was afraid of getting cold.  There would be 36 nights. I did not know what would happen. 

#art #performance art #transgression #bed #sleep #dream #dreams #diary

[storyofthenauseouseye]

Passionate Prose From A Perverted Philosopher: Bataille’s Poetry

Most people are not familiar with the works or life of Georges Bataille. I don't blame them. I'm sure my professor is looking at this with fearful eyes, praying I'm not actually about to start a post on the Georges Bataille, the notorious anti-philosopher and writer whose works have made him rather infamous. Well, don't worry. I'm not about to make a whole post on surrealist literary fetish pornography. No, we're going to take a more muted approach and look at Bataille's key concepts and ideas through his poetry.

There are no graphic depictions of masturbating with a chicken egg here, folks. Just some twentieth-century poetry so dark it helped inspire the lyricism of the black metal genre movement (a movement that included the burning of churches and ended with the murder of some people).

Ambrogio Antonio Alciati, The Kiss, 1917.

Key Concepts

Hopping from surrealism, to eroticism, to religion, and eventually starting an occult group, Bataille's writing is anitsystematic, and it's diffiicult to categorize into a few labels. Thankfully, there are prevalent themes that shine through the messy, dark chaos that he left behind. These themes are predominantly themes of myth, pain, and social transgression (Mambrol).

The easiest way to explore those themes is to sort through the poetry of Bataille. Bataille was a surrealist, and actually was an associate of Andre Breton until Breton and he got into an argument and Bataille distanced himself from the group and the movement.

Myth

Myth is the first predominant theme in the library of Bataille.

Despite being on-and-off Christian and occultist, Bataille's swings of loving and hating God, spirituality, and the cosmic experience of existence was something he found a lot of room for. Not only did this appear in his specultaive fiction and autobiographical philosophical works, but this also appeared with the confines of his poetry.

O dead God O dead God Me I hounded you with hatred unfathomable I would die of hatred as a cloud is undone

(Bataille and Kendall, 11)

Per this untitled example, Bataille has no problems saying the kinds of things that got him in trouble in his time. His disdain for traditional myth and religious iconography is only rivaled by his own strange hypocrisy. Going in and out of different religions and spiritual seasons, Bataille would often write in favor of these myths.

"At the height of the heavens / the angels, I hear their voices, glorify me / I am, under the sun, an errant ant" (Bataille and Kendall, 13).

Here, Bataille was in a season of deep religious fervor. He felt so small to the passionate outpouring of the heavens, a glrious feeling that he would write many poems about. This love and hate relationship with mythology and relgious structures would pave the way for many of his stranger, more ethereal works.

Pain

To say Georges Bataille was emo would be to undersell his emotionally black works. The suffering and emotional torment he speaks of isn't that of a Pierce the Veil song, rather his kind of authentic pain belongs to something more in line with DSBM (depressive suicidal black metal). It doesn't come as a surprise, he practically invented the lyricism for the black metal genre as a whole.

Verses about suffering, stars, violence, galactic existentialism, nihilism, strange fetishistic imagery, Satan, and either an extreme reverance for religion, or the dismal rejection of it, this specific niche of harsh music couldn't exist without Bataille's own flavor of self hatred (Bereshith and Fas).

Take, for example, such extreme verses as

I scream at the sky that it's not me who is screaming in this lacerating thunderstorm it's not me who is dying it's the starry skies the starry sky screams the starry sky cries I fall asleep and the world is forgotten (Bataille and Kendall, 34)

As you can see, the edgelord himself, Bataille, outdoes a good amount of the goth and emo campiness. He settles for something a good bit more horrific, including depictions of murder and violent sexual content. But why? Why write poems about vehement antireligious and religious ideologies, self destructive tendiencies, gross sex, and violence? Because Bataille was a transgressive author.

Left: Deathspell Omega, Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice, 2004. Right: Deathspell Omega, Deathspell Omega Logo, 1998

Social Transgression

Bataille was a transgressive philosopher and artist. Despite being an antisystematic writer whose interests were scattered, it is impossible to fight the fact that he was a figure of transgression.

Transgressive art is art that defies rules, laws, expectations, or norms. It is often shocking and causes quit ethe controversy. Other examples of transgressive artists would be Marilyn Manson, Jorg Buttgereit, Marquis de Sade, Rozz Williams, and John Waters.

I won't touch upon the topic of "is shock art true art" but I will say that Bataille and others like hm went on to make quit ethe names for themselves. Although these ideas and tpics may not be that taboo to the social norms of today, it disturbed many people to read something such as

Bird's laughter filthy with blood crash of ice from teeth filth screaming vomiting head hung in horror (Bataiile and Kendall, 129).

I mean, when a dude from a band called Deathspell Omega does an interview and lists you as a reference of inspiration, you've probably said some dark stuff that caught on with a very specific crowd of people.

And if you think tat's bad, look into his novel, The Story of the Eye. I dare you.

Works Cited

Bataille, Georges, and Stuart Kendall. The Poetry of Georges Bataille. Translated by Stuart Kendall, State University of New York Press, 2018.

Bereshith, and Fas. “Interview with Deathspell Omega from AJNA Offensive.” Deathspell Omega, https://ezxhaton.kccricket.net/interview.html. Accessed 8 December 2023.

Mambrol, Nasrullah. “Key Concepts of Georges Bataille – Literary Theory and Criticism.” Literary Theory and Criticism, 2 May 2017, https://literariness.org/2017/05/02/key-concepts-of-georges-bataille/. Accessed 8 December 2023.

Further Reading

#literature #absurdism #dark art #expressionism #transgression #french #french literature #english major #georges bataille #academia aesthetic #dark academia #academic aesthetic #academia #academic writing #the story of the eye #poetry #poems #writeblogging #blog #writeblr #transgressive art

[godswordnkjv]

#godsword #bible #bibleverse #verse of the day #bible verse #old testament #nkjv #isaiah #destruction #transgression #sin #judgement

[daturabombs333]

Me

#selfie #fae #daturabombs333 #faecore #fairy girl #fairycore #faerie #faery witch #transgressive #pink hair #debauchery #fairy wings #me #pale #fae aesthetic #faekin #transgression #fairy aesthetic #witches of tumblr

[wiirocku]

Psalm 32:1 (NKJV) - Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

#Psalm 32:1 #blessed #is he #whose #transgression #forgiven #sin #covered #psalm

[panicinthestudio]

Best Of: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe, March 31,2023

In last November's midterm elections, voters placed the Republican Party in charge of the House of Representatives. In 2024, it’s very possible that Republicans will take over the Senate as well and voters will elect Donald Trump — or someone like him — as president.  But the United States isn’t alone in this regard. Over the course of 2022, Italy elected a far-right prime minister from a party with Fascist roots; a party founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads won the second-highest number of seats in Sweden’s Parliament; Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in Hungary won its fourth consecutive election by a landslide; Marine Le Pen won 41 percent of the vote in the final round of France’s presidential elections; and Jair Bolsonaro came dangerously close to winning re-election in Brazil. Why are these populist uprisings happening simultaneously, in countries with such diverse cultures, economies and political systems? Pippa Norris is a political scientist at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she has taught for three decades. In that time, she’s written dozens of books on topics ranging from comparative political institutions to right-wing parties and the decline of religion. And in 2019 she and Ronald Inglehart published “Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/... which gives the best explanation of the far right’s rise that I’ve read. In this conversation, taped in November 2022, we discuss what Norris calls the “silent revolution in cultural values” that has occurred across advanced democracies in recent decades, why the best predictor of support for populist parties is the generation people were born into, why the “transgressive aesthetic” of leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro is so central to their appeal, how demographic and cultural “tipping points�� have produced conservative backlashes across the globe, the difference between “demand-side” and “supply-side” theories of populist uprising, the role that economic anxiety and insecurity play in fueling right-wing backlashes, why delivering economic benefits might not be enough for mainstream leaders to stave off populist challenges and more.

Mentioned:

Sacred and Secular (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...) by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart

“Exploring drivers of vote choice and policy positions among the American electorate (https://perryundem.com/wp-content/upl...

Book Recommendations:

Popular Dictatorships (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...) by Aleksandar Matovski

Spin Dictators (https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...) by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

The Origins of Totalitarianism (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-orig...) by Hannah Arendt

The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times Podcasts

#The Ezra Klein SHow #New York Times #far right #reactionary #politics #conservatism #populism #nationalism #Pippa Norris #religion #democracy #backlash #authoritarianism #transgression #economics #cultural backlash #anxiety #insecurity

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . I became a spectator of my own act, one of the shocked onlookers . . .

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

#dissociation #shocked #in shock #so far removed #shocking #out of body #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #transgression #siri hustvedt #the blindfold

[lettersfromgod]

"Thus says The Lord God: The earth is filled with violence, the whole world is corrupt! Madness has overcome the people, transgression is uplifted, and abominations of every kind are widely accepted; great wickedness proliferates throughout every tribe, tongue, people and nation unimpeded! Thus the earth is forsaken for a time, wherein I have turned to it My back. And so shall it remain, until the Great Day comes when I shall move swiftly against it…"

📜 Excerpt from: https://answersonlygodcangive.com/New_Heights_in_Wickedness (Answers Only God Can Give - Regarding "New Heights in Wickedness")

#thevolumesoftruth #prophecy #god #truth #wordofgod #dayofthelord #answersonlygodcangive #answersfromgod #bibletopics #thussaysthelord #lettersfromgod #wickedness #earth #violence #world #corrupt #transgression #abominations #forsaken

[wisdomfish]

Such is the power of the cleansing work of God upon the heart that he can restore innocence to us, and make us as if we had never been stained with transgression at all. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

#power #mr. clean #heart #restore #innocence #stained #transgression #wash me

[tom-isaacs]

Lick Piece - Ben Patterson

"Although Patterson’s example has been invoked to corroborate art historian Kathy O'Dell's claim that 'there were probably more women and artists of color associated with Fluxus than with any other previous grouping of artists in Western art history,' Gender, race, and American history intersect in one of Patterson’s most notorious works, the Lick Piece, 1962, from Methods & Processes: cover shapely female with whipped cream lick . . . topping of chopped nuts and cherries is optional "Patterson felt the piece was 'more funny than erotic,' but a number of critics detected sexist overtones, their view supported not only by the score's 'shapely female' reference but also by the famous 1964 photograph of Patterson, fellow Fluxus artist Robert Watts, and others spraying whipped cream on a white woman’s nude body. However, these critiques fail to take into account that neither the gender nor the race of the performer doing the licking is specified by the score. Moreover, in many parts of the United States, including downtown New York at the time, Patterson’s performance could have culminated in an Emmett Till–style denouement. It is difficult to imagine that this thought did not cross Patterson’s mind, and it seems even odder that this possibility has hardly been considered by Fluxus critics and historians."

#art #performance art #fluxus #race #gender #lick #transgression #sexuality

[antonpustovalov]

"Invasion Receptors", mixed media, electronic art, author Anton Pustovalov, 2023.

#transgression #abstract #abstraction #digital art #experiment #dark #dark art #daz3d #dazstudio

[dk-thrive]

The impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable asset compromised, undermined, and subverted.

Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19: A Novel (Riverhead Books, March 1, 2022) 

#Claire-Louise Bennett #Checkout 19 #defile #transgression #abasement

[elizabethanism]

“Transgression is the attempt to find out exactly what it is that it is impossible to escape from.”

~ Adam Phillips,

from, “Houdini's Box”

#Adam Phillips #Houdini's Box #escape #Transgression

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 17:9 (NKJV) - He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

#Proverbs 17:9 #He who #covers #transgression #seeks #love #repeats #matter #separates #friends #wisdom

[iisthepopeoffools]

In the 1960s and 1970s, counterculture was genuinely revolutionary. In the 1980s and 1990s, counterculture was no longer revolutionary but was still destructive of traditional norms. In the 21st century, counterculture has been co-opted back into society - leading to both the widespread post-modern nihilism of the 2000s and the competing puritanical belief systems of the 2010s and early 2020s.

#counterculture #we need a new counterculture #transgression #capitalist realism #obviously this is something of a generalization as is the case with all observations of zeitgeist #but observations of zeitgeists can still be useful