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Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"

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Transitioning from Aristocratic to Bourgeois Expenditure

This chapter explores the concept of non-sumptuary production and how market imperatives transform expenditure in society from the aristocratic to the bourgeois mode. It also touches on the relationship between expenditure, wealth, and philanthropy, and discusses the latent potency for revolution in the proletarian class.

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