Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:29:08 -0800
Subject: A Blue Moon in January


Saludos. January is Blue Moon month. 


"Some philosophers are probably afraid of French philosopher Georges
Bataille .... What is frightening to them is that he is so appealing to the
pop world. Techno-pop and the erotic novels just go together, by which I
mean that I am not surprised when young friends and relatives tell me that
they have recently read and 'really liked' Blue of Noon or that the
religious writings accurately describe what raving 'means to me.' Bataille
is to post-industrial what Nietzsche is to psychedelic rock. His stance has
been appropriated, changing the world but making Bataille himself henceforth
innocuous, otiose. The June 1993 Mondo cover surely resonates with
Bataille's readers. It is in these moments that the philosopher becomes us,
literally, we breathe and speak him; computer images offer up his eyes. His
stance is in the pop world and the origins of this entry are erased. The
flat imagery of pop mirrors its a-traditional subject position. Pop is a
stage in the progression of world history but it is not self-conscious of
its movements." [Alison Leigh Brown]