- L’informeby Lauren O’Neill-Butler
“It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.”
- L’informewith Aria Dean, Bruce Hainley, Ruba Katrib, Emmanuel Olunkwa, and Lauren O’Neill-Butler
“It’s easy to recognize specters of Bataille’s thought today, for better and for worse.”
- Matthew Barney
in conversation with Aria Dean“At the core, I think of my creative language as being rather formless.”
- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
in conversation with Valerie Midlin“L’informe comes out of WWII, the atomic bomb, and the Holocaust.”
- Michael Taussig
in conversation with Nancy Goldring“Sacrifice is a pointed instance of dépense, an exquisitely sacred combustion, and one that runs throughout Bataille’s economics.”
- Catharsis in Ten Fragments
by Lauren O’Neill-Butler“I’ve never understood catharsis.”
- Black Bataille
by Aria Dean“Blackness presents the possibility of a thoroughly anti-Idealist aesthetic and theory of objects.”
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Volume 2
Architecture