Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.

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Stoekl, Allan.

Title & Author:

Bataille's peak : energy, religion, and postsustainability / Allan Stoekl.

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Description:

xxi, 247 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure -- Rereading Bataille -- Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity -- Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure -- Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God -- Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall -- Expenditure and depletion -- Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability -- The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism -- An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Are there other ways to imagine life in an era that will be characterized by resource depletion? The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity--the essence of the human--and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: la depense, or "spending without return." In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Bataille--in the wake of Giordano Bruno and the Marquis de Sade-- can help us rethink not only energy and consumption, but also such related topics as the city, the body, eroticism, and religion.

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ISBN:

9780816648184 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816648182 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816648191 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816648190 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
Bataille, Georges.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292795
Call No.: BIB 237283
Status: Available

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