Acéphale
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Dieses Buch untersucht Konzeptionen der Mimesis und des Mimetischen in der Kontaktzone zwischen Ethnologie und (post-)surrealistischer Avantgarde im Paris der 1930er Jahre: bei Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Michel Leiris und im... more
Publié dans l'ouvrage collectif, dirigé par Rémi Astruc, "La Communauté revisitée (Community Redux)", RKI Press, 2016. Certains aspects ont été développés en anglais: "Whatever Singularity, Negative Community, and Literature (Perhaps)"... more
A consideration of evil as a political (rather than theological) problem, as laid out in the work of Georges Bataille and other members of Acéphale (the "secret society" he co-founded).
"Have I ever been so certain that life bears an answer to the most unfathomable movements of the heart?" Georges Bataille asked himself in his autobiographical book Guilty (1944). What was the source of Bataille's certainty? Baas's... more
Article rédigé à la suite de l'intervention au séminaire transfrontalier ESTHÉTIQUE ET SPIRITUALITÉ III "À L’ÉCOLE DE LA VIE INTÉRIEURE", APPROCHES INTERDISCIPLINAIRES co-organisé par l’École doctorale en Langues et Lettres de la... more
This study attempts to deliver an intellectual history of the journal Inventory and its place within theories of knowledge, publishing, artistic practice, ethnography, politics and critical theory.
Lovecraft’s significance in cultural history becomes clearer if we see him as a counterpart of his contemporary, the increasingly influential French theorist and pornographic writer Georges Bataille (1897-1962), in attempting to carry to... more
Si Colette Peignot, qui s’est choisi le nom de « Laure », n’est pas complètement oubliée aujourd’hui, c’est surtout en sa qualité de compagne de Georges Bataille, et d’une rumeur de vie dissolue et scandaleuse qui entoure sa biographie.... more
From the outer demons that brought you the cult of Dionysus, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, Acéphale and the CCRU comes SPLM, Society for the Propagation of Libidinal Materialism. This book gathers a gourmet selection of the secret... more
ÖZ André Masson'un dergi kapağına çizdiği kendisini toplumsal olandan sıyırarak kurban eden hem cellat hem kurban olan başsız insan figürü, metindeki dönüşümün esaslı kaynağıdır. Dinsel bir kutsallıkla değil de toplumsal anlamda artık... more
"Rupture fragile, produite par clivage sans prévenir, souvent sans déformation plastique, inter ou intracristalline ; et les morceaux peuvent se réassembler parfaitement. Rupture contrôlée par la contrainte normale, clivage des liaisons... more
Public talk as part of the Philosophy of Religion Workshop at the University of Chicago Divinity School. This file contains the slide presentation that accompanied the talk.
La historia de la comunidad Acéphale sigue aún hoy rodeada de misterios. Organizada en torno a una serie de prácticas secretamente custodiadas, tres de sus miembros, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski y Georges Ambrosino, publican en... more
No ano em que comemoramos o centenário do nascimento de João Cabral de Melo Neto, vemos ser celebrado um dos mais notáveis poetas brasileiros. Para além das leituras ascendentes do seu projeto poético, apresentamos uma reflexão sobre o... more
A meditation on writing and pain, drawing upon Georges Bataille's "mythical anthropology." Contains an original drawing by Ryan Pfeiffer and Rebecca Walz (Pfeiffer+Walz).
Abstract for Derrida Today June 2016 conference paper
Paper presented at the 9th annual meeting of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, November 10, 2016, New York City
Marcel Fournier examines the attitude of Marcel Mauss towards the program of the Collège de Sociologie.
Aggression, Transgression & the Avant-garde. 6th June 2017, Edinburgh College of Art
In this article, the author introduces several approaches to the concept of sacrifice. It begins with the classic sociological approach of Émile Durkheim who in sacrifice remarks forming, strengthening and maintaining of a community. In... more
Publicado no livro "L’Amerique latine entre critique et théorie – Un autre regard sur la littérature"
Written in the wake of the solar eclipse of August 2017.
A transgeneric document (theoretical and philosophical reflections, drawings, meditations, fictions, and free associations) on sovereignty, mystical experience, mythological anthropology, dreams, art, desire, psychoanalysis, death, love,... more
RESUMEN: Se publican por primera vez en español los cuatro números de la legendaria revista "Acéphale" —"Acéfalo"— fundada en 1936 por Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski y otros pensadores, donde luego participan André Masson, Michel... more