Imagine a bullfight for you alone. Today we deliver you the middle of our three-part close reading of the work and life of Laure (also known as Colette Peignot)—masochist, poet, revolutionary, and the only female member of the secret society Acéphale—dying in Bataille's home at the age of thirty-five as the forgotten author of many of the best ideas he is known for. We explore Laure's relationship with chronic illness in relationship to both her broader work and disability theory, excavate the events of her tragically young death and its aftermath, and illuminate the contents of the work Bataille discovered when she was already past the point of communication: her writings on the Sacred. Take Laure's hand with us and let her haunt you.

Sources:

"Laure: The Collected Writings" by Laure, with contributions by Georges Bataille and others

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