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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of luxus, which is beyond the relative luxury we might associate with the possession of this or that object, in the contemporary context of global capitalism. I explore neoliberal capitalism, where consumption is endless, through reference to Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share , where economy is less...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 303–318.
Published: 01 November 2010
... : Sage . Bataille G. 1985a . Visions of Excess. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Bataille G. 1985b . Literature and Evil. London : Marion Boyars . Bauman Z. 2001 . “ Excess: An Obituary .” Parallax 7 (1) : 85 – 91 . Belk R.W. 1986...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 270–273.
Published: 01 July 2020
... a powerful and convincing theory for understanding the cultural politics of luxury, but the second part is more problematic because this is where Wiesing could have drawn on the works of Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille, who writes about his own “accursed share” (1991) as a study of luxury. Closing part 1...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2006
... : University of Texas Press . As an example of good bad Marxism, Hutnyk considers the case of Bataille, whose everyday comings and goings to the library are described. Hutnyk argues that Bataille's attempt to bring about a Copernican-like revolution, wherein restrictive capitalism and an economy of sheer...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of Benjamin's work. In this respect I seek to follow Žižek's own strategy of philosophical buggery to redeem the profane materialism, or real, of Benjamin's thought from those who would seek to relate his work to current liberal theories of delay and deferral. References Bataille G. 1928/1982...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 249–252.
Published: 01 July 2008
... are, as Bataille observes in “Architecture” (an entry written for Dictionnaire Critique in 1929), inherently conservative with their large investment of money, labor, and ingenuity, while much of critical theory comes into being through radicality. Architects who refuse to be stupefied by normative architectural...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 252–254.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, and others, Guibert's frequently violent and scatological writing can often be difficult to read. Still, this examination of sickness and death—both his own and his friends’—is difficult in another way, not so much repulsive as it is granting us access to a truth we...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 327–343.
Published: 01 November 2018
... law-giving capacity” (29), with a Nietzschean “love of the exceptional” (35) and “the single being” (37) and with the “revival of the Romantic cult of the hero” (37). In Georges Bataille’s work, on the other hand, this moment appears as the desire for what he called “continuous life,” or life away...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
... University Press . Bataille Georges . (1967) 1991 . Consumption . Vol. 1 of The Accursed Share . Translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Zone . Baudrillart Henri Léon Joseph . 1821–92 . Histoire du luxe privé et public depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours ( History...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 51–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Emile . 2016 . “ Luxury Is Unjustifiable .” With an introduction by John Armitage and Joanne Roberts . Cultural Politics 12 ( 1 ): 42 – 48 . Featherstone Mark . 2016 . “ Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille .” Cultural Politics 12 ( 1 ): 66 – 82 . Freeland...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 139–143.
Published: 01 March 2015
...,” by Jennifer Doyle, and “The Man and His Tattoos (By the Man Who Did Them),” by Alex Binne, examine. In tandem with the queer writings of André Gide, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs, as well as eastern mystics like Fakir Musafar, significant influences on the artist the book also...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 July 2010
... least, here, a hint of “the intellectuals [or at least les fonctionnaires ] on the road to class power.” But then, there are few other cultures in which one could write so confidently of “La bataille de l'intelligence, en quoi consiste l'histoire de l'humanité …” ( Stiegler 2008a: 58 ). 1...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 242–259.
Published: 01 July 2024
... offering a more sophisticated account of the psychic topology through which the subject and the symbolic interact. George Bataille's engagement with the subjective and symbolic dimensions of Christian mysticism offers another possible route through which to explore Eckhart's contemporary political...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 263–273.
Published: 01 July 2018
... was really performed completely and correctly, whether it was authentic. Leiris arrived in Africa with the conception of religion received from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille. “The fetish appears: it is a formless mass that, when the four men have cautiously brought it out of its lair, proves...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
... reorganizes his ideas around the concept of sovereignty, inspired by Georges Bataille, not Hobbes, which refers to fleeting moments where cinema communicates “intense instants, temporal spasms, which are only transcendents because they emanate from immanence, that is to say from a realist experience...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (3): 357–380.
Published: 01 November 2007
... ritual in which the powerful dissipate their wealth. By outdoing their rivals they not only reestablished their power, but they also renewed the economic cycle for another year. Mauss’s anthropological research was philosophically adapted by Georges Bataille, who passed the word to a generation...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 287–302.
Published: 01 November 2010
... similar to Bataille's (1988) cycles of increase, excess, and expenditure. With no brake, political paranoia develops its own momentum. The unsuccessful paranoid ruler, however, will suffocate under mounting layers of protection, aloof, alienated, estranged. Unable to convince others of their paranoia...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of the body in work etc.), he looks briefly at the contribution of Georges Bataille and his analysis which noted that the meaning of the naked body could only be grasped by comparing its appearance in a genuinely symbolic order with that of the fetishistic order (1981 [1972]: 98). The contemporary cultural...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 257–278.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Trickster by systems of formal rationality, but to redeem his vital energy and creativity. References Adorno T. Horkheimer M. 1992 . Dialectic of Enlightenment . London : Verso . Aquinas St Thomas . 1963 . Summa Theologica . London : McGraw-Hill . Bataille G. 1994...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Bataille and Roger Caillois (see Hollier 1988 ), the other was the Walter Lippman Colloque (see Audier 2012a ). The latter gave rise to the main groupings of neoliberal intellectuals, by no means of a single voice, from Raymond Aron to F. A. Hayek, who attempted to revive liberalism by reworking...
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