A Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille
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Object as Catastrophe Thought
Christian meditation before the cross was no longer rejected with simple hostility, but assumed in a total hostility that demanded embracing the cross in hand-to-hand combat. In this position of object as catastrophe thought lives the annihilation that constitutes it as a vertiginous, an infinite fall. The mirror that, in the crash of telescoping trains, suddenly slashes open one's throat is the expression of this imperative, implacable but already annihilated eruption. Each movement susceptible of being inscribed in an order annulls time, which is absorbed in a system of measure and equivalence. Time has become virtually reversible with others, and with time all existence.
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