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Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 1)

Acid Horizon

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The Purity of Dreams and Desires

The Marquis de Saad dreamed about wild orgies because he was in prison. So just as Hegel dreams of a purified, absolutely complete rationality, a pure reason, Saad dreams of a world of utter desire and complete. And Batai knows that there's no purity. There's no absolute expenditure and there's no absolute regulation. So there is only somewhere in the middle. We need to figure out what that middle is and how that middle is going to work for each of us as individuals and for communities.

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