The intoxication of destruction in theory, culture and media : a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille / Erin K. Stapleton.

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 w...

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Main Author: Stapleton, Erin K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
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