Christian Mysticism & The Philosopher of Holes

We push even further into our esteemed Philosopher of Holes Georges Bataille, especially in regards to how his concept of religious erotocism can be understood with and against the embodied experiences of the Christian Mystics through the work of Amy Hollywood. We talk suckling from holy wounds, the feminized Jesus, novel insertions, foundational religious experiences, horror without limit, and much more. Traumatize thought and encounter the God of the Mystics 🍷 ⛪ 👼

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Intro song is "Bless You" by the Ink Spots

References:

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood

Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion by Amy Hollywood

Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction by Benjamin Noys

"Erotism: Death and Sensuality" by Georges Bataille

"Inner Experience" by Georges Bataille

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille

Young girl eating a bird (The pleasure) by Rene Magritte

Hosts:

cosima bee concordia is a submissive femme leatherdyke based in PDX. She's a writer of trans horror fiction, essays, and theory, and in past lives she was a bookseller, an English teacher, a philosophy student, and a limp-wristed sissy. Her whole thing is pushing boundaries of body and self in intimacy and art, and she is deeply in love with her wife (not married because fuck marriage) and Daddi (not her father because abolish the Family)⁠—not to mention her precious son Mandu, a dog that she did biologically birth from her womb.

Aurora Laybourn is doing her best not to become a jaded academic. She has an M.A in philosophy and is currently pursuing her PhD in the Chicago area where she works, teaches and lives. Her dissertation examines the failures of the justice system’s carceral approach to sexual violence; an approach which she argues leads to a grotesque reification of rape culture through a process of re-victimization. When she isn’t working she enjoys taking baths, watching movies that straddle the line between campy and pretentious, and drinking red wine mixed with coke.

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