Skin-nihilism now

flaying the face and refiguring the skin

David Boothroyd

pp. 198-215

in: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Diane Morgan (eds), Nihilism now!, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

This photograph had a decisive role in my life. I have never stopped being obsessed by this image of pain, at once ecstatic and intolerable. (Bataille 1989, 206)