"To accept his writings is an impossibility, to resist them an irrelevance."

"My abnormal devotion to Bataille stems from the fact that nobody has done more to obstruct the passage of violent blanks into a pacified oblivion, and thus to awaken the monster in the basement of reason."

"It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end."

- Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism