This post picks up on some comments made here and here about experience. The quotes below are from a paper by Zeynep Direk entitled, 'On the Sources and the Structure of Derrida's Radical Notion of Experience'.

'Experience' is an old metaphysical concept and in Australia it mostly means or refers to subjectivity, or the conscious subjective of the body processing information. This is traditionally given an empiricist twist of a historical bits of sense data that come from outside the body to our inside (the consciousness of the isolated and ahistorical 'I'.) As the sense data are raw or outside of language, so the signs of language are "derivative" in that they are conceived as a modification of consciousness. Signs are worked up from linking sense data.

Derrida has characterised the traditional concept of experience in the philosophical tradition of the West as "the experience of presence," an absolute proximity to consciousness of that which is experienced. Derrida is working against the phenomeological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger but his thesis of the unification of presence and experience can apply to the empiricist conception of experience. Derrida argues that working beyond the logic of presence and founding it, lies the buried logic of the trace.

In his paper Direk says:

In "From Restricted to General Economy," Derrida interprets Bataille's relation to Hegel by putting the concept of experience at the center of his reading. He thereby articulates the difference between Hegel's concept of experience and Bataille's as the difference between a restricted economy and a general economy. In fact, Bataille can be said to follow a certain trend of Hegel criticism which asserts that "experience" is inexhaustible.

In its striving for homogeneity, Hegel's discourse, unjustifiedly though necessarily, reduces the accidental, heterological elements such as restlessness, eroticism, anxiety, laughter, and the mystical. Bataille insists on these experiences, since they do not constitute a dialectical moment in the Phenomenology. Hence, these resist the project.