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“No Selfhood…No Freedom: Martin Heidegger’s Radical Definition of ‘Transcendence’ in 20th Century Europe”
This essay endeavors to craft a modern definition of the term “transcendence” based on the work of twentieth-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger. For 2,500 years, the term “transcendence” has been employed to ... -
Georges Bataille's Vertigo and the Flamenco of the Other
In his search for the origins of the transgressive philosophical project of Georges Bataille, biographer Michel Surya turns to Bataille’s experiences in Spain in 1922. Surya cites two commentaries on flamenco written by ... -
Synaesthesia and Transgression in "Story of the Eye"
While Georges Bataille’s “Story of the Eye” challenges many boundaries (pornography and art among them), his central concern was of the boundary between the possible and the impossible, or, what could be expressed in ... -
Being Japonaise: Understanding the Authentic Implications of Fusion Cuisine
The transition from cooking to culinary art is one of the manifold manifestations of the specializations of a society and its foray into the perfection of the physical representation of general ideology. Cooking is born ... -
Bodily In/Securities at the Airport Border
Counterterrorism efforts after 9/11 brought about a new era in airport security, intensifying the surveillance and militarization of the border like never before. Yet those changes have not affected everyone equally: They ... -
Brutal Justifications: Media Narratives of Twentieth Century Lynchings and Twenty-first Century Police Executions
ABSTRACT: Dominant narratives treat lynching as a thing of the distant past and police violence as aberrant and isolated. Yet, many critical anti-racist observers have called today’s police executions of black bodies ... -
Smear It on Your Face, Rub It on Your Body, It’s Time to Start a Menstrual Party!
This article explores current attitudes about menstruation and the resulting menarchy movement. Menarchy, or menstrual anarchy, is a response to negative attitudes about menstruation. Menarchists critique the femcare ... -
‘Tête-a-tête avec Antonin Artaud-’ On the Communicability of the Void
This article uses Bataille’s concept of the void to illuminate “Tete-a-tete avec Antonin Artaud,” or an intimate conversation with the French poet that occurred on the night on January 13, 1947. From nine until midnight, ... -
Georges Bataille and the Ruinous Role of Nonknowledge in Derrida's Unconditional Hospitality
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when political debates concerning strangers and foreigners often gestured towards hostility, Jacques Derrida took the exact opposite position, demanding that the stranger and ... -
Disciplinary Power and the Subversion of Student Protest on U.S. University Campuses
ABSTRACT: The university campus has continually been a center for political performance and student activism; however, this article examines they ways in which universities subvert and undermine student activism. Analyzing ...