Thank you for your very interesting answer to the article about Blanchot/Bataille!
I will answer it another time, maybe with an own posting.
Anyways, the concept of “community” is very interesting to think about and even to reconsider, what it was, is, could be … if it’s good for a society or not, and, according to Blanchot, if it’s even possible. Bataille was in need of the idea of community. Lacan, who I think also was a friend of Bataille, also could be read as very pessimistic when it comes to this possibility of a real community (in his theory of desire). Adorno/Horkheimer are quoting a sentence of Nietzsches “The Gay Science” in their book “Dialectic of Enlightenment”: “Where are lieing my biggest dangers?” Nietzsche asked himself, “in compassion”. I think this quote is very near to Blanchots work and also very near to the idea of the “death wish” you mentioned in your posting.

thank you again for reading,
best regards!

cheers, Majesty.

Isaac is the future and I like that his name means “to laugh.” The laughter comes at a price (pain is an indication of the living) – Isaac (to laugh) ‘died’ to Abraham on the day God told him to sacrifice his son. The laughter, the future joy, was resurrected three days later – and now I see a new meaning.

Laughter overcomes death – lightness, spirited, elevated. I am reminded of a story by Balzac, Old Goriot, when Eugene’s cousin is heartbroken by the announcement of her lover’s betrothal on the day of her party, one of the biggest events on the social calender in the Paris society of nobles. She does not show any sign of weakness but enjoys the ball, smiles genuinely at all the guests the whole, long night and maintains her nobility.

I’ve not had the strength to realise the change brought on by this little death I’ve suffered. I’ve failed the challenges and acted ignobly. Past expectations weigh down upon me. It is a repitition of our whole relationship but this break is final and its hard to reconcile myself to the difference. I take strength from your words, Muli, and rejoyce that in the knowledge you give me, I renew my reason to laugh and to love, to write and keep company in my circle of fine friends.

“Hohohoho, Mister Finn [fine - finis - finish - end], you’re going to be Mister Finnagain.”
Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake

It’s only when you feel this pain, that you live. if you don’t feel the pain, you’re nothing but a vegetative being. Bataille, in his intro to “the impossible”, sees in pain and desire the only two indications for living, and I believe that Borroughs would have signed it too.
And this pain should be present, as long as you’re alive, along with the memory of your beloved and the desire. With this three, repeated within every new time capsule – all being equally mandatory – you can beat the system.

But here’s one thing Kierkegaard didn’t mention – I think it can be useful in the current situation – maybe it was lost in translation:

I don’t find Isaac in Fear and Trembling; but one shouldn’t ignore the role given to Isaac, as expressed in his name. “Isaac” in Hebrew is the future tense of “to laugh”. It has a direct and explicit allusion to Sarah’s laughter upon hearing that she’s going to have a baby at the age of 90, but the future tense insinuates something more, I believe.

It’s Isaac on the altar, facing the knife of Abraham coming down – and what I hear at this exact moment is not a cry, nor a silent tone, that which is part of Jonathan de Silencio – what I hear, and I assume you can hear very well just the same – is a great, spontaneous, rolling, shocking laughter.

Laugh, my friend.