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Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"

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The hosts delve into Georges Bataille's concept of expenditure, explaining its connection to non-productive excess and the destruction of property in societies. They also discuss the influences of Marcel Moss and Emil Durkheim on Bataille's cultural anthropology, and share their impressions of the text's exploration of the economics of matter and cosmic sense of expenditure.

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