Bataille
• On Bataille

References for Theme: On Bataille

• Boldt-Irons, Leslie-Anne
• On Bataille (2020)

• Goux, Jean-Joseph
• "Georges Bataille and the Religion of Capitalism" (2020)

• Habermas, Jürgen; Lawrence, Frederick
• "The French Path to Postmodernity: Bataille between Eroticism and General Economics" (1984)

• Human, Oliver; Cilliers, Paul
• "Towards an Economy of Complexity: Derrida, Morin and Bataille" (2013)

• Igrek, A Z
• "Violence and Heterogeneity: A Response to Habermas'“Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille”" (2004)

  (p.418) Thirdly, the transformative action of work is a maintained tension that is unable to realize itself in its own results. Drawing from Hegel and Marx, Bataille agrees that work is the foundation of human self-awareness.It is true that work is motivated by fear, as well as class struggle, but it is likewise the dialectical means for achieving mastery and freedom. It is in and through work that humanity separates itself, in part at least, from the immediate drives and impulses of animalism: “Work was, above all else, the foundation for knowledge and reason. The making of tools and weapons was the point of departure for that early...

• "Violence and Heterogeneity: A Response to Habermas'“Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille”" (2004)

  (p.419) Insofar as the contradiction of work cannot be resolved for transcendent individuals, it is argued that humanity is inherently alienated, that work is nothing but anguish, contradiction, and play. Because of work, we bothanticipate and protect ourselves from death.

• "Violence and Heterogeneity: A Response to Habermas'“Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille”" (2004)

• Landa, Ishay
• "Bataille: The Master, the Slave, and Consumption" (2015)

• Montenegro Bralic, V
• "The Materialism of Georges Bataille. A Reading from the Perspective of Nietzsche and Marx" (2015)

• Nodoushani, Omid
• "A postmodern theory of general economy: The contribution of georges bataille" (1999)

• Ryder, Andrew
• "Bataille against Heidegger: Language and the Escape from the World" (2011)

  (p.81) While Bataille’s moi is also separate from Being, he would repudiate the essential role of revealing beings through language and Being. Even this duty, from his perspective, remains subordination. His language does not illuminate beings. The “taste of garlic” that Bataille evokes in the apprehension of death is not revealed in his language. It is instead presented as enigmatic, untruthful, and dirty. Bataille’s language is a being that isobscured by death. It is material. Heidegger criticizes Marxism for a metaphysical commitment tomaterialism, which posits all beings as “the material of labor” (1993: 243). The tendency to see all objects as congealed labor-time leads Marxism to complicity with technical...

• "Bataille against Heidegger: Language and the Escape from the World" (2011)

• Timofeeva, Oxana
• "From the quarantine to the general strike: On Bataille’s political economy" (2020)

  (p.146) Bataille’s general economy introduces the domain of the nonhuman that remains alien to all restrictive economic activities of human beings on Earth. The more that will be produced and accumulated by humans, the more will be destroyed on the planetary level, as there are natural phenomena that humanity canneither appropriate nor even properly control—such as epidemic outbursts, global warming with its multiple effects, tsunamis, or volcanic eruptions. These planetary activities are opposed to work: according to Bataille, they rather express the idle wastefulness of nature that time and again seem to obstruct the processes of capitalist accumulation and economic growth. Thus, a single virus kills thousands of...

• "From the quarantine to the general strike: On Bataille’s political economy" (2020)

  (p.158) They think that they struggle for survival or work for prosperity, but altogether their economic activities only contribute to the planetary feast indistinguishable from a plague. It is this destructive aspect of the accursed share, outlined by Bataille, that relates to his later concept of full violence, or violence of the nonhuman, presented in “Pure Happiness.”

• "From the quarantine to the general strike: On Bataille’s political economy" (2020)

  (p.161) From the quarantine to the viral strike; from climate change to the solar strike—these could be the mottos for a general politics in times of pandemics and global warming. If we put it like this, we should explain the strike not as an expression of need, but as an excessive wave of dangerous festivities that replace work.

• "From the quarantine to the general strike: On Bataille’s political economy" (2020)