...chapter eight Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille james leo cahill It wins its truth only when, in absolute dismemberment [absoluten Zerrissenheit], it finds itself. G. W. F. Hegel Queneau s Dare Raymond Queneau, writing in homage of his friend and former...

... On a regular commute to work, the sight of fresh roadkill and a radio conversation about the subject of hunting compel an anthropologist to reflect—via the writings of José Ortega y Gasset and Georges Bataille—on the human experience of loving animals and killing them. ...

...chapter one The Politics of Abjection sylvère lotringer Georges Bataille introduced the notion of abjection in the late 1920s in the journal Documents as a way of countering the sublimating tendencies at work among the French cultural avant- garde. The surrealists resorted to higher spiritual...

... Yoruba iconography, George Bataille’s concept of eroticism as expenditure, and psychoanalytic concepts of fetishism, this chapter gives the first in-depth account of Fani-Kayode’s appropriation of the performative space of the photographic studio as a site in which cross-cultural translation gives rise...

... simply antithetical to the desirable socialist politics, however. Rather, it fundamentally shaped what was desirable. Or, what was abjected enabled the very formation of the socialist body politic. As Georges Bataille argues, the abject (including the disinherited waste population), which the system...

...index #MeToo movement, 93, 107 2 Broke Girls (2011 2017), 65 200 Pounds Beauty (2006), 21, 43 55 Abbas, Ackbar, 137n4 Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art (Houser), 33 Abject Terrors (Magistrale), 91 Abjection and Miserable Forms (Bataille), 1 6, 20, 24, 33 35, 186 187, 229 Abraham, F...

...- establishing sacred that underwrites coloniality and anti- Black racism does not completely determine how we imagine and perform the sacred. As Jeremy Biles points out, an ambivalence is intrinsic to the notion of the sacred. With a nod to Émile Durkheim and Georges Bataille, Biles distinguishes between the...

...: on the contrary, the oppressed are formed out of the amorphous and im- mense mass of the wretched population. Georges Bataille, Abjection and Miserable Forms This volume springs from the existential fault lines that now characterize con temporary politics and culture, like weeds growing out of a...

... explication of Yoruba iconography, George Bataille’s concept of eroticism as expenditure, and psychoanalytic concepts of fetishism, this chapter gives the first in-depth account of Fani-Kayode’s appropriation of the performative space of the photographic studio as a site in which cross-cultural translation...

... follows. Indeed, in explicat- ing this, I engage a number of thinkers from Georges Bataille and Ced- ric Robinson to Denise Ferreira da Silva, from poets Dawn Lundy Martin to Nathaniel Mackey though I want to quickly say that most every thing I am trying to think about here builds toward a thinking with...

... 79 anti-museum, 170 72 apartheid, 43 46, 180 81 Arendt, Hannah, 67, 71, 76, 77 78, 123 Bataille, Georges, 69 70, 90 Bauman, Zygmunt, 83 84, 201n61 Bertrand, Romain, 20 biopolitics, 74 76 biopower, 66, 70 74, 92 Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 17 borderization, 99 100 capitalism, 177 79 camps, 36, 40...