November 13, 2003

Bataille links

When searching the net with google for the previous posts on sovereignty I came across bits and pieces. One way of coming at sovereignty is to contrast it to the way Carl Schmitt uses it. Schmitt's conception of sovereignty is still grounded in the fiction of a secularized God in the form of a state interposed between the ruler and popular sovereignty. In contrast, Bataille located sovereignty in the heterogeneous forces of a Dionysian, acephalic, "unavow-able" community of living individuals involved in the sacred ritual of dismembering the supreme being.

Now for the bits and pieces.

An international conference on Bataille in Canada in 2000 entitled 'Georges Bataille: Community, Transgression and Excess.' Alas no papers online.

Here are some online texts on Bataille that I found interesting and useful:
Welch Everman
Russell Porter
Richmond Review
Jason deBoer
David LR Kosalka
Reviews
Andrew Wernick

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 13, 2003 11:25 PM | TrackBack
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