Bataille's Peak

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Introduction: on shortage, excess, and expenditure Rereading Bataille Bruno, Sade, Bataille : matter and energy, death and generosity Bataille's ethics : mechanized waste and intimate expenditure Bataille's religion : the counter-book and the death of God Bataille's city : elevation, divine eroticism, and the mortal fall Expenditure and depletion Orgiastic recycling : expenditure and postsustainability The atheological text: ecology, law, and the collapse of literalism An unknowable future? : expenditure in a time of depletion