1st Edition
The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media A Philosophy of Expenditure after Georges Bataille
By Erin K. Stapleton
Copyright 2022
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface: The Intoxication of Destruction, Introduction: Destruction and Immortality, Destruction I: Energy, Part 1: The General Economy, Part 2: Sovereignty and Heterogeneity, Destruction II: World, Part 1: Exploding Monuments (The Destruction Of Architecture), Part 2: Extinction (The Destruction of Everyone Else), Destruction III: Body, Part 1: Spectacular Expenditure (from Sacrifice to Execution), Part 2: Eroticism (The Destruction of Sexuality), Destruction IV: Matter, Part 1: Accelerating Destruction (The Material of Media), Part 2: The Material of the Digital (Computational Immortality), Conclusion: The Destroyers, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Erin K. Stapleton is currently a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.
