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The Solar Anus (French: L'anus solaire) is a short surrealist text by the French writer Georges Bataille, written in 1927 and published with drawings by André Masson in 1931. Albeit elliptically, its aphorisms refer to decay, death, vegetation, natural disasters, impotence, frustration, ennui and excrement.
Bataille explores the parodic and circular nature of life, love, and coitus in this provocative text. He links the sun, the earth, the moon, and the sea with sexual movements and images, and challenges the boundaries of language and meaning.
23 de nov. de 2021 · Ronald Athey. Cyril Kuhn's documentary opens with Jesse Helms on the Senate floor 1994, consists of Athey reading and talking, drawings, realtime footage of the Georges Bataille/Pierre Molinier inspired Solar Anus (performance-for-camera 1998), and behind the scenes set-up of Catherine Opie Large Format Polaroids shoot in NYC 1999 ...
10 de sept. de 2014 · A provocative and erotic exploration of the sun, the earth, and sexuality, published in 1931 by the French philosopher and writer Georges Bataille. The text mixes metaphysics, metaphors, and images of coitus, decay, and volcanoes in a style that challenges logic and convention.
3 de jun. de 2021 · Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comA Reading of Georges Bataille's "The Solar Anus". Patro...
18 de abr. de 2024 · The Solar Anus (L’anus solaire) is a short surrealist text, written by Bataille in 1927. It is Bataille’s essay on the sun’s power and energy, focussing on the positive aspects of the sun – (life, light, growth, sight, vision, reflections), and its negative aspects – (death, decay, disasters, fires, impotence, decomposition ...
By reading Bataille’s early text “The Solar Anus” explicitly in terms of its invocation of the Cretan myth of the labyrinth and the Minotaur, I examine how the performative poetics of the text allow it to create an expansion, rather than mere negation, of the Hegelian dialectic structure.
