THE RADIANT VOID — the newest issue, pressed and ready.
Bienvenue dans l’édition d’avril of Distinctively Dionysian, the third in our printemps triptych. This new issue is a cartography of shimmering negations and ecstatic affirmations.
From Friedlaender’s poised indifference to Novatore’s volcanic ego, from Benjamin’s pure means to Agamben’s suspended law, from Stirner’s scorching laughter to Bataille’s sovereign obliteration—The Radiant Void does not traffic in theory. It’s a pulse, a flicker, a transmission…
The essays within are gestures. Techniques. Oscillations. Zones of rupture. Each was created not from doctrine, but the zero-point that precedes it—what Friedlaender articulated as schöpferische Indifferenz, and what I might call das weltenschwangere Nichts—the radiant void, our zero-point, where worlds flicker into form.
Inside this issue:
Introduction — On Salomo Friedlaender and Creative Indifference
The luminous zero-point of schöpferische Indifferenz.
Thresholds of Fire — Benjamin, Agamben, and the Joyous Void
Pure means, suspended law, and the lineage of creative indifference.
A Laugh in the Void — Stirner and the Anarchic Echo of the Ego
Stirner’s egoist rupture — laughter that tears through the veil of the general.
Fire and Crystal — Stirner and Friedlaender on Indifference
Two visions of indifference: Stirner’s fire-lit singularity and Friedlaender’s crystalline equilibrium.
Twilight at the Center — Nietzsche, Friedlaender, and the Metaphysics of the Void
Nietzsche’s Dionysian becoming meets Friedlaender’s poised void—a metaphysical duet in the tone of twilight.
The Flame that Dances — Novatore and the Anarchy of Creative Indifference
Renzo Novatore’s wild, poetic refusal—creative nothingness as insurrection and sovereign flame.
Field Operations from the Void — Individualist Psy-Ops and the Tactic of Form
Insurrection through unreadability—indifference deployed as elegant sabotage. With quiet dedication to Jason Rodgers, for the spark offered.
Against the Machine, Into the Void — Tech, Refusal, and Radiant Neutrality
Creative indifference as personal revolt under digital siege—a sacred opacity in a techno-nightmare.
Creation in the Ruins — Creative Indifference Amid The Great Shift / Climate Collapse
Ecological individualisme and radiant refusal: creation as aesthetic survival amidst collapse.
The Sovereign Unbecoming — On Bataille and the Art of Self-Forgetting
Bataille’s art of self-forgetting—sovereignty not as control, but erotic rupture.
To Spend the Self — Erotic Thresholds and the Radiant Afterglow
Dépense, erotic afterglow, and sovereign expression as radiant surplus.
On the Rind of the World — Schopenhauer and Metaphysical Illusion
Schopenhauer’s principium individuationis as the metaphysical veil—appearance as
spell, and the tremble beneath.
Final Transmission — The Threshold that Follows
Mini Biography: Salomo Friedlaender
Philosopher of the magische Ich, grotesque satire, et schöpferische Indifferenz.
Mini Biography: Georges Bataille
Mystic of excess, sacred transgression, and the radiant sovereignty of loss.
The essays form a radiant constellation; to trace these constellations et write this issue was its own kind of exhilaration. I do hope you enjoy it.
To get your copy: [visit here].
— Fíona
xo, bien sûr.
