The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media : : A Philosophy of Expenditure after Georges Bataille / / Erin K. Stapleton.
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 w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction
- Introduction: Destruction and Immortality
- Destruction I: Energy
- Destruction II: World Destruction III: Body
- Destruction III: Body
- Destruction IV: Matter
- Conclusion: The Destroyers
- Bibliography
- Index