Surreal Documents writes about Black Romanticism, Georges Bataille, and death by a Thousand Cuts and invokes shamans and Michael Taussig.
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Surreal Documents writes about Black Romanticism, Georges Bataille, and death by a Thousand Cuts and invokes shamans and Michael Taussig.
Surreal Documents writes about Black Romanticism, Georges Bataille, and death by a Thousand Cuts and invokes shamans and Michael Taussig.
- "The development of Romanticism occurred in the context of the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and Colonization. The socio-cultural, political and economic changes that these historical developments entailed, informed the literary genre. Colonial expansion brought about encounters between colonialists and foreign peoples and places, and Romanticism as a genre arose partly as a response in writing to such encounters."[1]
In an earlier post Valter had [2] had started with Adrien Borel and Georges Dumas to introduce death by a Thousand Cuts and a case of bibliomancy by his daughter.
- "Recently, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter performed a spontaneous act of bibliomancy, which suggested a different genealogy of Bataille's relation with Borel's photograph than Surya's emimently respectable descent from Christianity. Aurélie - she is named after De Nerval's Aurelia - pulled Mario Praz's 1930 book The Romantic Agony out of the book cupboard. It fell open on the first page of the final chapter, "Swinburne and 'Le vice Anglais'"."
Valter's take on this final chapter in The Romantic Agony is much deeper than my wiki entry and connects George Selwyn to the Hellfire Club and Satanic orgies at Medmenham Abbey.
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