Contents
Foreword: Why Bataille Now?Alphonso Lingis
IntroductionShannon Winnubst
Part 1. Situating Bataille
1. Dare to Know, Dare to Sacrifice: Georges Bataille and the Crisis of the
LeftJesse Goldhammer
2. Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory:
Reconceptualizing Energy Amy E. Wendling
3. The Use Value of G.A.M.V. BataillePierre Lamarche
Part 2. Pleasures and the Myth of Transgression
4. Bataille's Queer Pleasures: The Universe as Spider or SpitShannon
Winnubst
5. Erotic Experience and Sexual Difference in BatailleZeynep Direk
6. Malvolio's RevengeAlison Leigh Brown
Part 3. Bodies and Animality
7. The Private Life of Birds: From a Restrictive to a General Economy of
ReasonLadelle McWhorter
8. S/laughter and Anima-letheLucio Angelo Privitello
9. Bodies at Play: A General Economy of PerformanceDorothy Holland
Part 4. Sovereign Politics
10. The Accursed Share and The Merchant of VeniceAndrew Cutrofello
11. Politics and the Thing: Excess as the Matter of PoliticsRichard A. Lee
Jr.
12. Excess and Depletion: Bataille's Surprisingly Ethical Model of
ExpenditureAllan Stoekl
List of Contributors
Index
