{"id":214,"date":"2021-07-19T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:56:49","slug":"the-story-of-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/19\/the-story-of-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Georges Bataille, 1928<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An utterly debaucherous novella (with a companion essay) hell-bent on pushing the limits of transgressivity. The accompanying essays by Sontag on &#8220;The Pornographic Imagination&#8221; and Barthes on &#8220;The Meaning of [Bataille&#8217;s] Eye&#8221; were worth reading in themselves. I think it sets out to accomplish what it intends to do &#8211; and Sontag acknowledges this in depth &#8211; in that this is a tacit amalgam of some philosophical food for thought with half-decent writing. Don&#8217;t expect to get Plato out of this though: whilst Bataille did publish philosophical texts, in this particular instance his mode, or rather representation of thought, is more aligned with de Sade. It&#8217;s best not to take this one too seriously, else you&#8217;ll get caught in the trap I feel Bataille sets out for us. This has been called &#8216;the Greatest Love Story Ever&#8217; by a certain YouTube reviewer and while I can&#8217;t quite agree, it&#8217;s interesting to read this through different, unexpected lenses. Worth it since it&#8217;s short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:500px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:500px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georges Bataille, 1928<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,91],"tags":[35,22,36,32,19,38,37],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antelibrary","category-thesis","tag-erotica","tag-love","tag-marquis-de-sade","tag-metaphysics","tag-novel","tag-pornography","tag-susan-sontag","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}