L’informe
It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.
by Lauren O’Neill-Butler
L’informePopular
It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.
with Aria Dean, Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, Emmanuel Olunkwa, and Lauren O’Neill-Butler
Matthew Barney
At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless.
in conversation with Aria Dean
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.
in conversation with Valerie Midlin
Michael Taussig
Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.
in conversation with Nancy Goldring
Catharsis in Ten Fragments
I've never understood catharsis.
by Lauren O’Neill-Butler
Black BatailleClassic
Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.
by Aria Dean