This photograph had a decisive role in my life. I have never stopped being obsessed by this image of pain...

>This photograph had a decisive role in my life. I have never stopped being obsessed by this image of pain, at once ecstatic and intolerable. I wonder what the Marquis de Sade would have thought of this image, Sade who dreamed of torture, (which was inaccessible to him) but who never witnessed an actual torture session. In one way or another this image was incessantly before his eyes. But Sade would have wanted to see it in solitude, at least in relative solitude, without which the ecstatic and voluptuous effect is inconceivable. What I suddenly saw, and what imprisoned me in anguish — but which at the same time delivered me from it — was the identity of these perfect contraries, divine ecstasy and its opposite, extreme horror. And this is my inevitable conclusion to a history of eroticism."

What did Georges Bataille meant by this?

I can't even tell what's going on here, is that Gene Hackman?

No, it's Lingchi. Don't know if this one shows it a little bit better.

leng tch'e

best john zorn album

True

Image is horrifying

That's actually The Circle Maker

Absinthe*

Nah, Execution Ground is prime dark ambient zorn

HE would mean to give a proper slap in the face . Then his gay followers would bitch fuck you in some pigalle side alley ...Don't ask questions of shitty bygone era ..epoch you will never understand millennial!!!

Bataille is neat. Got me interested in the Aztecs, made me realize how distinct human cultures can be. What a world, what a world.

HE.he he nice to be sat there in your bespoke home with your bespoke girlfriend in your dads hose thinking its really great and its my country also hey I'm a good guy ..FUCK OFF NORMIE

If I'm lucky, I'll reincarnate as a neo-aztec high priest and my daily labor will be plucking the hearts from gungans and terminators.

Wtf is going on here?

Possibly the most edgelord thing I've read in months.

death by a thousand cuts. I'm not sure if this is chinese of vietnamese (can OP clarify?). It's a torture practice where you slice off the flesh in tiny pieces, causing a prolonged and painful death.

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actually they'd usually feed them opium beforehand so they'd be slowly dying and not even know it

>actually they'd usually feed them opium beforehand so they'd be slowly dying and not even know it

Who knew sadism could go so deep?

still not as bad as scaphism imo

ah, of course I just had to google that. Aztec flaying rituals are pretty intense too, though not intended as torture or punishment.

>The central ritual act of "Tlacaxipehualiztli" was the gladiatorial sacrifice of war prisoners, which both began and culminated the festival. On the next day of the festival, the game of canes was performed in the manner of two bands. The first band were those who took the part of Xipe Totec and went dressed in the skins of the war prisoners who were killed the previous day, so the fresh blood was still flowing. The opposing band was composed of daring soldiers who were brave and fearless, and who took part in the combat with the others. After the conclusion of this game, those who wore the human skins went around throughout the whole town, entering houses and demanding that those in the houses give them some alms or gifts for the love of Xipe Totec. While in the houses, they sat down on sheaves of tzapote leaves and put on necklaces which were made of ears of corn and flowers. They had them put on garlands and give them pulque to drink, which was their wine. Annually, slaves or captives were selected as sacrifices to Xipe Totec.[33] After having the heart cut out, the body was carefully flayed to produce a nearly whole skin which was then worn by the priests for twenty days during the fertility rituals that followed the sacrifice.This act of putting on new skin was a ceremony called 'Neteotquiliztli' translating to "impersonation of a god". The skins were often adorned with bright feathers and gold jewellery when worn. During the festival, victorious warriors wearing flayed skins carried out mock skirmishes throughout Tenochtitlan, they passed through the city begging alms and blessed whoever gave them food or other offerings. When the twenty-day festival was over, the flayed skins were removed and stored in special containers with tight-fitting lids designed to stop the stench of putrefaction from escaping. These containers were then stored in a chamber beneath the temple.
from the wikipedia article, but I think Bataille talked about some of these flaying rituals in The Accursed Share? Fuck I need to re-read that book.