Contenu du sommaire : Georges Bataille

: This article examines the theory of religion outlined by Georges Bataille in 1948 as a quest for communication. It is not an exegesis of this author's work, but rather a text-reflection based on the central ideas he spread. We consider religion here as a word, a cry, an opening towards the Other.

In the tradition of thinkers neglected for too long, such as Georges Bataille and Georg Simmel, the author aims to demonstrate that there is an “everyday hedonism” that underlies all life in society. It is not an expectation nor a tension regarding the future, but a presentism. We can see the resurgence of what Bataille called the “part maudite” (the accursed share), that chthonian and nocturnal aspect of the imaginary. The social link becomes emotional, and this is what the author calls “an ethics of the aesthetic.”

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This text brings together some extracts of Mario Perniola's book
L'instant éternel. Bataille et la pensée de la marginalité
and highlights the theoretical contribution of Georges Bataille to the analysis of art and its creative image through the notions of heterogeneity and the negative. Here, in particular, the author demonstrates the troubled relationship between Georges Bataille and André Breton in order to contextualize the points of contention.

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The aim of this article is to highlight the power of Georges Bataille's radical thought by putting into perspective the multiple aspects of his work that explore the mystery of society. We concentrate on the inner experience that is seen as a common thread, helping us to understand social heterogeneity via transgression, energy, and expenditure: in short, an exploration of life in all its power.

: This reflection focuses on Bataille's book On Nietzsche in order to demonstrate the role of chance as a fact of the world. The theoretical question is based on an “inner experience” that depicts a subject desiring this existence of chance, while also provoking a level of anxiety and questioning reason and the Other.

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Our consideration is based on the figure of Colette Peignot—best known by the pseudonym
Laure—, who was at the heart of circle of authors including Nietzsche, Lautréamont, Klossowki, and Bataille, for whom she was an inspiring muse. Her writings are a kind of kaleidoscope in which we can perceive the power of writing and reading. Here we focus on the posthumous works
Histoire d'une petite fille and
Le sacré in order to comprehend the images, emotions, and reflections that irradiated Georges Bataille in particular, both in his life and his work.

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Using Georges Bataille's
The Accursed Share as a basis, the author aims to show how the symptomatic notions of dilapidation and unproductive expenditure are essential to understanding the effects of different aesthetic and political manifestations of our contemporary world, which reveal this accursed share of man in his inner experience of the world.

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The thought of Georges Bataille is still relevant and helps us to question the present. In this article, we propose an interpretation of the
inglorious thirties of neo-liberalism from the angle of sovereignty, expenditure, and excess energy—whose effects on the contemporary subject are evident—by finally introducing a possible social construction of self-consciousness.

: We use some of Georges Bataille's favorite themes, such as eroticism, not-knowing, and expenditure, to better understand certain current phenomena, specifically YouPorn. In this way, we highlight the dissipation of desire and the critique of the values of modern society and we question both the content of capitalism and the digital expansion of existence.

: Georges Bataille's heterology concerns an awareness of the heterogeneous, which is based on notions such as excretion and appropriation, the foreign body, and unproductive expenditure. In its political dimension, it provokes a critique of homogeneous society that is updated particularly in the daily life of cities as an accursed part. In his sociological reading of heterology, Philippe Joron introduces four categories for understanding these social energies: dispossession, communion, proxy, and entiération. They are used in this article to characterize singular urban phenomena that subvert the homogeneous quotidian in cities.

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Georges Bataille's work, directly or indirectly, concerns the question of communication and the link that join us to beings, things, and the world. Its approach to communication is at once literary, political, philosophical, economic, sociological, ethological, and anthropological, in no particular order and through adaptable lenses, provided that we accept the idea of possible transdisciplinary exchanges between these perspectives.

: Réunion joined the national
gilet jaunes (yellow vests) movement on November 17, 2018. This protest movement quickly gathered momentum, and the island was paralyzed from November 19 onwards, with an unprecedented outburst of violence centered on roadblocks. Popular power is displayed in public and challenges the powers-that-be that no longer understand what is happening on the streets, because for too long they have ignored and denigrated the people. This movement, just like the one in mainland France, means much more than a mere protest against the rise in the price of fuel. It is fighting against the high cost of living on the island, and even more than that, aims to be heard and recognized in a quest for identity, calling for a community ideal and a more participatory democracy. This article tries to understand how this protest movement was born and how this popular power is facing up to the powers-that-be in Réunionese society, where citizens' opinions have long been suppressed.