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gracklegrackle wrote

I just got the Contagion Press version of Acephale and it’s wild so far, I’m about halfway through. It’s pretty much: -Bataille and his friends trying to recover Nietzsche’s philosophy from the nazis in the 30s and general anti-fascist stuff -Dionysos worship and theory -The idea that we must behead ourselves metaphorically and also somewhat literally, Bataille wanted to be decapitated but nobody wanted to do it

Has anybody else read it? It’s pretty neat and I’d love to talk about it.

Also, does anybody have any ideas for gig work to make any money? I just moved and am super broke, I need to afford estrogen among other things. Street performing and busking isn’t really helping, and I’m waiting on my ID so I can get work doing bike courier shit here. I’m not really tryna do crime-related things right now and I can’t do research studies. Also the climate here is super ducking hot so all the dumpster food is pretty bad but the food pantries here have been helping.

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_caspar_ wrote

Ive only read The Sacred Conspiracy, but would like to read more Bataille. episode 8 of the quiver project discusses it, among other things. I think its worthwhile to check out.

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gracklegrackle wrote

I'll check out that episode, thanks! Did you like The Sacred Conspiracy? I'm now considering it getting it once I have money again. Contagion Press actually sent me Acephale for free, which is so so so nice.

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_caspar_ wrote (edited )

I liked it enough to make a pdf of it :)

Contagion is great.

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gracklegrackle wrote

Ohhh okay I see, yes this is at the beginning of Acephale! I thought there was an entirely different book. This is a cool pdf!

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_caspar_ wrote

thanks. I try to design short texts I find interesting when I can. I still need to take the time to format them all to print as imposed pdfs, so they are best for online reading... for now.

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gracklegrackle wrote

This is fucking amazing, for real. Wow, did you do art for all these? They're beautiful! Def gonna share this with friends. I've been slowly practicing hand-done bookbinding, maybe I'll practice with some of these!

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_caspar_ wrote

I designed them. the specific paintings/photos/etc I used for the covers are usually labeled on the title page.

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NoPotatoes wrote

Dog walking? You could put up flyers with your phone number. As people stop working for home they need someone to help take care of those untrained quarantine dogs...

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gracklegrackle wrote

I could try that! I worry though that nobody utilizes those fliers anymore because of how many dog walking apps there are these days...

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