/lit/ - Literature

>>15858201
>other major touchstones per the Fragments interview also include Bataille, Rimbaud, Jarry, and Artaud.
it's in fragments too that he references fernandez
>When you speak about the exchange of the nothing, one thinks, of course, of Georges Bataille and the famous 'accursed share', prodigality and sumptuous expenditure: the living organism receives more energy than is strictly required by it. It is this excess that men expend in luxury, love or war. Something that goes beyond the anthropological underpinnings of classical political economy!
>Bataille's 'accursed share', of course, to which must be added Marcel Mauss's 'potlatch'. But I found the idea of the 'nothing' in Macedonio Fernandez, an Argentine author who is very little known in France, even though two of his books have been translated! He wrote a very remarkable book on the continuation of the nothing.
referencing papiers de nouveauvenu et continuation du rien
and nebreda in living coin: singularity of the phantasm from impossible exchange
i'm interested in his minor references too, like these ones. what's some other noteworthy ones you know?
>all of those names are not terribly useful for understanding his work.
i think they are useful for understanding his early work on sign value
>>15863871
>Isn't it kind of cucked to maintain a belief in a truth behind the simulacra? Why do we want truth? Why not rather fiction?
isn't it kind of cucked to have a complacent opinion in line with the system's?
>Are you thinking of yourself as the man fooled by the simulation? Or as the man who creates it?
debord. what one creates is situations, not spectacle, unless you're compromised that is