Reading Bataille now

Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis

Introduction / Shannon Winnubst

Part 1: Situating Bataille

Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer

Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling

The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche

Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression

Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst

Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk

Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown

Part 3: Bodies and animality

The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter

Slaughter and anima-lēthē / Lucio Angelo Privitello

Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland

Part 4: Sovereign politics

The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello

Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.

Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.

Foreword: Why Bataille Now? / Alphonso Lingis

Introduction / Shannon Winnubst

Part 1: Situating Bataille

Dare to know, dare to sacrifice : Georges Bataille and the crisis of the left / Jesse Goldhammer

Sovereign consumption as a species of communist theory : reconceptualizing energy / Amy E. Wendling

The use value of G.A.M.V. Bataille / Pierre Lamarche

Part 2: Pleasures and the myth of transgression

Bataille's queer pleasures : the universe as spider or spit / Shannon Winnubst

Erotic experience and sexual difference in Bataille / Zeynep Direk

Malvolio's revenge / Alison Leigh Brown

Part 3: Bodies and animality

The private life of birds : from a restrictive to a general economy of reason / Ladelle McWhorter

Slaughter and anima-lethe / Lucio Angelo Privitello

Bodies at play : a general economy of performance / Dorothy Holland

Part 4: Sovereign politics

The accursed share and The merchant of Venice / Andrew Cutrofello

Politics and the thing : excess as the matter of politics / Richard A. Lee, Jr.

Excess and depletion : Bataille's surprisingly ethical model of expenditure / Allan Stoekl.