Batailles Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability
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Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability In Bataille's Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Georges Bataille can help us rethink not only. As the price of oil climbs toward $ a barrel, our impending post-fossil fuel Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability and over one million.
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The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity—the essence of the human—and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: Through these cases, Stoekl identifies the differences between waste, which Bataille condemned, and expenditure, which he celebrated. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend—without recourse to austerity and self-denial—the inevitable and necessary shift from a civilization founded on waste to one based on Bataillean expenditure.
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He is the author of Agonies of the Intellectual: Selected Writings, — Minnesota, Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. This is on many accounts a wonderful book. Not perfect, but an extreme lot of thought and work has been placed into it, so I can't value it otherwise.
The great thing is it provides a very complex way of thinking together religion, economy and energy, and explores these links by a greatly enjoyable reading of the work of Georges Bataille, trying to extend it. It should be of interest just because it already presents a number of links that enable grasping the complexity of Bataille's system. It i This is on many accounts a wonderful book. It is also great, because it links it with a number of additional material, bringing about a truly powerful frame through which to think about sustainability and postsustainability, urbanism, architecture and environmental ethics.
And still, I think there is a certain problem. There is - very deep in Stoekl's thought a zone, beyond which he is unwilling to go. In a footnote to Method on Meditation , Bataille explains his difference with Heidegger: I am not a philosopher, but a saint , maybe a madman.
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And I also remain unconvinced that we ought to give away the economical stress on labor in favor of energy, and I hardly see this as a zero-sum game. Moreover, while in his economic explorations, Bataille ceaselessly persists in asking a few questions, such as why people need religion, at a certain moment, Stoekl points to limitations to Bataille's assumption about energy, but at the same moment, seems to rather cease asking why does Bataille make these claims. The end result then seems to me rather limited on certain accounts, resting rather comfortably with a certain presupposition of human innocence and its passive-nihilist implications , as compared to the stress Bataille places on the paradoxical ethical virtue of guilt.
That, however, seems to me a consideration, that would not, nor should not spare interested people from the guilty pleasures of reading Stoekl's book. Mar 01, A rated it really liked it Shelves: Jul 19, Leon Sandler rated it liked it. As a clear explanation of Bataille's theories of base materialism, energy expenditure and urbanomics, the book does very well. The section on ethics is an interesting rereading of "Against Architecture," but is perhaps too humanist for Bataille.
The section on religion is largely unnecessary. The second part of the book, applying Bataille to peak oil--supposedly the projects's aim--meanders into other topics, but remains relatively interesting. Jenni rated it liked it Jul 08, Clifford Sargent rated it it was amazing Oct 18, Sarah rated it really liked it Mar 15, Hickman rated it really liked it Oct 15, James rated it really liked it Mar 03, Kai rated it it was ok Oct 19, Matthew rated it really liked it Feb 27, Daniel rated it really liked it Mar 17, Kevin rated it did not like it Sep 13, Lee Vincent rated it liked it Aug 13,