Dark Matter: Jacob Frank and Georges Bataille Jacob Frank remains one of the most unsettling figures in the history of religious thought — not simply because of his antinomian theatrics or his deliberate profanations, but because his teachings articulate a vision of matter that resists both classical gnosticism and rationalist secular materialism. While the gnostic imagination traditionally casts the material world as a prison to be escaped, Frank inverts the schema: matter b

Trigger Warning       This article examines the lives, writings, and legacies of Jacob Frank and the Marquis de Sade, including their engagements with sexual transgression, religious antinomianism, coercive practices, and violence. It discusses explicit themes such as sexual exploitation, ritualized power dynamics, and philosophical justifications of cruelty within historical contexts.     The analysis is scholarly, but the material may be disturbing or overwhelming for some

A Strange Hatching   Into Eden fly the winged elohim    screeching like owls, scattering dark mist   and whirling about, their wings flapping shadows   over baffled beasts below.     The first of the elohim  selects an animal   on two legs & calls it Adam.   Into the brainstem a long needle of DNA   is inserted.     The second elohim  draws out a rib   from a gash in Adam’s side.   From that rib a female of girlish proportions   is fashioned & named Eve.     Grinning like an

Begin, Again, Finally Begin Organic bodies. Competitively divergent, Striving to maintain Separation. First creature, Rat. Disgusted, self-hating, heart-horrored. Ties a string-taut wire around his skinny neck And kicks the stool. Begin again Second, Vulture. Stupidly well-fed on pride, Invests heavy in guns, Gas, nightsticks and, supercritically, All the plutonium he can lay his talons on, Ending in his own atomization: The birth of stars. And again Sna

WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT The Voyeur He watched her take a piss, using the camera hidden in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated and came in less than a minute, hundreds of miles away. She pulled up her knickers, straightened her skirt and left the bathroom. The voyeur, the Aufklärer, wiped himself clean and looked around, to make sure he hadn’t been seen. Everything is transpar

WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT. 18+ Der Aufklärer (The Enlightener) He watched her take a piss, using the online camera secreted in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated hundreds of miles away and came in less than a minute. Dark thoughts gathered round him like crows, which he batted away. Now he had complete possession of the truth, obscene and pornographic. The motto all truth must