Georges Bataille’s “Notion of Expenditure“

Subscribe to Acid Horizon on Patreon: Like theory apparel and want to support us? Go to: Anti-utilitarianism. An account of the sacred. Expenditure and destruction under capitalism. In this episode, Will, Adam, and Craig discuss the 1933 text “The Notion of Expenditure“ by Georges Bataille. We compare the concept in focus to Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of antiproduction and the body without organs. We also talk about Marxism, Mauss, and cultural anthropology.