Ascent

Bataille's atheistic religion and despair from Jennifer Frances Armstrong on Vimeo.
This video also concerns Bataille's negative dialectic or the exposure to "nothing". It's not at all scientific to assume that the salience of points have a fundamental existence outside of your mind. Atheistic "mysticism" differs from religiosity a few steps further up the mountainside at the point where hope turns into despair and one's despair becomes redemptive. I'm not really arguing that one should embrace this perspective, only that it is the natural consequence to a long climb in relation to Western metaphysics. At the higher reaches of the summit, unlearning/nonknowledge becomes key to advancing, instead of requiring a further acquisition of knowledge.
 Cf. unsanesafe.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/time-has-come-walrus.html