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The Philosophy of Georges Bataille with Tim Themi and Adam Lovasz

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The Paradox of Capital Accumulation in Batai Leon

I think about Batai Leon diagnosis of capital accumulation would be that basically the society is sort of like constipated and there's more and more resources piling up in the form of capital. Alistair Stokol comes very close to a sort of BataiLeon political theory. Another idea which I found in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest is the idea of shooting our wastes into space. We live in a time especially in the west under capitalism of sort of intense creation and supposed intense imagination but there's so much to consume, he says.

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