The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media

The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media

A Philosophy of Expenditure After Georges Bataille

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This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in execution and in eroticism, and in media and digital arc...