Allan Stoekl Knihy

"Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogenous, promising perfect satisfaction. Why then does it find revolt everywhere? Could it be the omnipresent police? The plagues? The proliferating prisons and black markets? Written in part as a description of post-World War II Europe, Blanchot's dystopia charts with terrible clarity the endless death of god in an era of constantly metamorphosing but strangely definitive ideologies."-Translation Review

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

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