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Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)

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Patai's Obsession With the Sovereign Subject

Patai's subject is a sacrificial subject, and what he is drawn to is sacrificing both the mechanism of knowledge, the mechanism of self-reflection, consciousness. This is why he's interested in intoxication or eroticism as a way to have desire overwhelm our consciousness. He goes back to a fundamental experience that he had sometime, I think, January 1927. In short, he becomes batai through this kind of an experience, and it's an experience of the disruption of subjectivity.

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