{"id":3562,"date":"2011-03-19T07:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/19\/in-the-domain-of-our-life-excess-manifests-in\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T07:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T07:45:55","slug":"in-the-domain-of-our-life-excess-manifests-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/19\/in-the-domain-of-our-life-excess-manifests-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

In the domain of our life excess manifests in itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ration with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the wild impulses worked out on feast days and usually in games are frowned upon. If we were unable to repress these impulses we should not be able to work, but work introduces the very reason for repressing them. These impulses confer an immediate satisfaction on those who yield to them. Work, on the other hand, promises to those who overcome them a reward late on whose value cannot be disputed except from the point of view of the present moment. From the earliest times work has produced a relaxation of tension thanks to which men cease to respond to the immediate urge impelled by the violence of desire. No doubt it is arbitrary always to construct the detachment fundamental to work with tumultuous urges whose necessity is not constant. Once began, however, work does make it impossible to respond to these immediate solicitations which could make us indifferent to the promised desirable results. Most of the time, work is the concern of men acting collectively and during the time reserved for work the collective has to oppose those contagious impulses to excess in which nothing is left but the immediate surrender to excess, to violence, that is. Hence the human collective, partly dedicated to work, is defined by taboos without which it would not have become the world of work that it essentially is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

Eroticism, page 41.<\/p>\n

G Bataille<\/p>\n

(via muf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the domain of our life excess manifests in itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ration with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the wild impulses worked out on feast days and usually in games are frowned upon. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-man-machine","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-Vs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":824,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/02\/boxdub-void-dance-the-primal-choice-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":0},"title":"boxdub: void-dance: The primal choice,\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 2, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"boxdub: void-dance: The primal choice, the fork in the road, is between others\u2019 and one\u2019s own self. If the only way to maintain the self is to lose others, then the ordinary child will give up the self. Safety is a most basic and prepotent need for children, more primarily\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mqtz7ehaPU1s4t1cno1_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3875,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/05\/anarchy-of-the-mind-something-that-constantly\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":1},"title":"Anarchy of the Mind…: Something that constantly gets on my nerves while on Tumblr:","author":"monochromist","date":"March 5, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"Anarchy of the Mind...: Something that constantly gets on my nerves while on Tumblr:anarchyofthemind: In the activist blogosphere here, there seems to be a rampant reduction of all human culture to a sociological construct. \u00a0While societal structures are obviously sociological constructs, they have quite strong biological roots. \u00a0Unforunately, the anthropocentric\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/10\/03\/naaru-call-for-submissions\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":2},"title":"naaru \/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \/","author":"monochromist","date":"October 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\/ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \/ Naaru would like to invite you to contribute for the October issue of the publication. Please see below for more details: About Naaru: Naaru is a bilingual platform for individuals interested in exploring the dynamic relationships formed by the interplay of social, political, cultural, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3858,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/05\/the-path-of-non-attachment\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":3},"title":"THE PATH OF NON-ATTACHMENT","author":"monochromist","date":"March 5, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"THE PATH OF NON-ATTACHMENTsufigeek: mystifiedandsublime: by\u00a0Peter Morrell \u00a0 Trying to be a good Buddhist in the modern world is not easy; there is much that conspires against one on every side. Out of all the various concepts of the Buddhist faith, only two or three really stand out as central\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2794,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/22\/the-vacuum-cleaner-the-artist-and-activist\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":4},"title":"the vacuum cleaner – the artist and activist collective of one.","author":"monochromist","date":"March 22, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"the vacuum cleaner - the artist and activist collective of one.suntzuplatoon: 20 March 2012, Male\u2019, Maldives 42 days since the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, six years after the inauguration of the country\u2019s first National Art Gallery tonight it was teeming with silently protesting young local artists. Walking around with placards depicting the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2891,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/05\/8th-february-2012-violence-by-mvdemocracycom\/","url_meta":{"origin":3562,"position":5},"title":"8th February 2012 - Violence\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 5, 2012","format":"video","excerpt":"8th February 2012 - Violence (by mvdemocracycom)(Source: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In "motion"","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}