duração do dia, de Adélia Prado – o sagrado no cotidiano

O objeto de análise deste artigo consiste na obra A duração do dia (2011), publicada no ano de 2010, com a segunda edição em 2011, sendo uma das mais recentes publicações de Adélia Prado. A autora aborda assuntos do cotidiano, do qual a poetisa retira momentos marcantes de significação sagrada no cotidiano. Pretende-se discorrer sobre o diálogo do sujeito do poema com algumas passagens de textos da Bíblia judaico-cristã, exclusivamente na estruturação ou nas partes do mencionado livro, de maneira que o tratamento dos temas desde as epígrafes permita ao leitor realizar uma profunda reflexão a respeito da existência e da fruição estética. Para a análise crítica são empregadas as ideias de Agnes Heller sobre a vida cotidiana e de Rudolf Otto sobre o sagrado, as quais são complementadas com o pensamento de outros autores, Roger Caillois, Georges Bataille, Luis Santos e Silvana Oliveira, Raimunda Alvim Bessa destes dois temas.

COMMENTARY ON THE UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION OF “INNER EXPERIENCE” BY GEORGES BATAILLE

The commentary is devoted to the Ukrainian translation of «Inner Experience» work by Georges Bataille, the famous French intellectual of the twentieth century. The paper outlines a short history of publications and extensions of «Inner Experience», which is a certain difficulty for the translator and the initial condition for incomplete translation of the work, which was not published in full while its author was alive. The paper is devoted to analysis of the key philosophical terms, the translation of which was problematic: in particular, such concepts as «angoisse» (anxiety), «supplice» (torment), «communication» (communication), «discourse» (discourse), «esprit» (mind),» entendement (understanding), «intelligence» (intelligence), «savoir» (knowledge), «connaissance» (knowledge), «ipse» (not translated) and «ipseité» (self). The concept of «anguish» provides an opportunity to fit Bataille into the existing existentialist-phenomenological tradition (understanding «anguish» as the «anxiety», a key concept in Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre works). The concept of supplice is also rich in connotations: it is primarily about the experience of the crucified Christ at the moment of his cry «in eli lama sabachtani» («why have you forsaken me?»). Bataille refers to this biblical story in order to illustrate the inner experience, but not of Christ himself, but of the Christian, who is filled with the Savior’s suffering, both physical and spiritual. Emphasis was placed on anti-discoursiveness and poeticism as key characteristics of Bataille’s writing, which also contributed to the complication of such a task as the translation of the work «Inner Experience». It is stated that both the translator and the reader of «Inner Experience» should come to terms with the style of wasting words, terms, and connotations in this work. This sacrifice was performed by Bataille repeatedly, and not aimlessly: after all, a new generation of philosophers (among whom J. Baudrillard, J. Derrida, J. Kristeva and M. Foucault) found in him a source of inspiration.

Arte da precariedade, cultura da alteridade. Thomas Hirschhorn e Georges Bataille

Este artigo focaliza a figura do artista engajado da atualidade, personificado por Thomas Hirschhorn, cuja obra trabalha nos limites da precariedade material. Seus trabalhos privilegiam o diálogo com o Outro, em empenho por repolitizar a arte. Procura-se caracterizar o artista-produtor em seu apelo a Georges Bataille (1897-1962), teórico da transgressão que preconizou para a modernidade um dispêndio insensato de formas e energia como contrafação dos mecanismos regrados do consumo moderno. A reflexão explora, por fim, os recursos da cultura da alteridade absorvida por uma arte política, e os riscos que incorre de formalismo e de condescendência etnográfica no trato com os marginalizados da atualidade.

El devenir-animal como cuestionamiento de lo humanoen 'El rey de La Habana', de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, y 'Plop', de Rafael Pinedo

El objetivo del presente estudio es presentar cómo se cuestiona el concepto de lo humano en dos obras representativas de la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea: El Rey de la Habana, de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, y Plop, de Rafael Pinedo. Si bien el punto de partida de este artículo es literario, el acercamiento a las novelas será interdisciplinario, ya que la crítica literaria se combinará con el análisis cultural y estético. Se manejará un fondo teórico variado que comprende trabajos de Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari, Gabriel Giorgi y Georges Bataille. Tras una introducción donde se presenta la diferenciación entre ‘lo humano’ y ‘lo no-humano’, se indagarán las diferentes ‘zonas de indeterminación’ (Giorgi 2012, 2014) donde ‘lo animal’ se entremete en ‘lo humano’, entre ellas, lo escatológico, lo corporal y la sexualidad. Todo esto para demostrar cómo las dos obras en cuestión subvierten, con un gesto crítico, las fronteras de la cultura humana. Uno de los propósitos fundamentales de este artículo es estudiar el papel que desempeñan, por un lado, la deshumanización y animalización del cuerpo y subjetividad humanos y, por el otro, la obscenidad y la vulgaridad en tanto discursos contraculturales en el cuestionamiento de lo humano, que hasta se manifiesta en la corrupción del lenguaje (literario).

Communicating with Georges Bataille in the Mixed Martial Arts Gym

In this article I turn to the theorist Georges Bataille to explore how the transgressive elements of training in mixed martial arts (MMA) facilitate a sense of intimacy and feeling of community among the participants. To build this argument, I draw on ten years spent alongside the hobbyists and competitors who spend their free hours in mixed martial arts gyms punching, kicking, choking, and hurting each other. Taking inspiration from Bataille, along with new engagements with materialism within studies of sport, I make central the exchange of sweat, touch, scent, germs, hair, saliva, blood, and pain. Through combining core elements of Bataille's writings with stories from the MMA gym, I direct attention to the allure of fleshy moments of excess, vulnerability, transgression, and communication. I conclude with a reflection on the gendered expectations that proliferate the gym, the challenges presented by the commodification of the practice, and the radical potentials of play and care.

Toward a Foucauldian Literary Criticism

The article argues for the renewed relevance of Foucault's early essays on literature, written throughout the 1960s, given a return to anthropological reflection in so much literary theory today (especially through affect theory and “new” phenomenologies—both of which rely on older categories supplied by psychoanalysis). On one hand, Foucault reminds us of all the “warped and twisted forms of reflection” that arise from anthropological thought, with its assumptions regarding the “unthought” and the hidden structures of sense and perception. This same Foucault, on the other hand, is deeply engaged with literature; his writings on a range of authors—from Homer and Cervantes, to Friedrich Hölderlin and the Marquis de Sade, to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot—constitute nothing less than an oeuvre. And yet, despite proposals to move beyond Foucauldian critique and its orthodoxy in literary studies today, hardly anything has been thought or said about this body of work in which Foucault, as David Carroll points out, “has the most to say about literature and language.” This lacuna is all the more surprising, since Foucault's early essays offer a rich and fruitful understanding of the being of literature as more than a limpid reflection of the body. In his reading of Bataille and Blanchot in particular, Foucault offers a unique vision of literature that is neither suspicious nor negative but that, in connection with his well-known critique of finitude, culminates in a hopeful call for openness.

Using Georges Bataille in Art History: Informe, Figuration and Politics

<p>The theories of the French intellectual Georges Bataille have had a significant influence on much recent arts practice and criticism. Bataille’s later work (c.1937–1962), however, is often overlooked in cultural practice and theory. In this later period his thought becomes richer; no less transgressive, no less excessive, and indubitably more philosophical. This thesis will argue the importance of using the chronological range of Bataille’s writing. In particular, it will redress the critical neglect in art history of his later work. The selective use of Bataille’s early work, especially the informe, in the American art history of Rosalind Krauss will be critiqued. The thesis will deploy concepts developed extensively in two late works, Inner Experience and The Accursed Share, to discuss the practice of two visual artists that do not figure in the type of methodology that Krauss adopts; the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon and the Swiss installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Inner Experience, a work revolving around the theme of ‘limit-experience’, will be the catalyst in an analysis of the works of Francis Bacon. This thesis will demonstrate that although Bacon was an avowed atheist, he ventures to capture a sacred and impossible moment in his painting that parallels the “movement of contestation” in “inner experience.” The conception of economy developed in The Accursed Share derives from the germ of Bataille’s economic theory, first outlined in the 1933 essay “The Notion of Expenditure.” Thomas Hirschhorn’s practice and his desire to “work politically” will be examined from the perspective of Bataillean expenditure and the notion of general economy.</p>

Using Georges Bataille in Art History: Informe, Figuration and Politics

<p>The theories of the French intellectual Georges Bataille have had a significant influence on much recent arts practice and criticism. Bataille’s later work (c.1937–1962), however, is often overlooked in cultural practice and theory. In this later period his thought becomes richer; no less transgressive, no less excessive, and indubitably more philosophical. This thesis will argue the importance of using the chronological range of Bataille’s writing. In particular, it will redress the critical neglect in art history of his later work. The selective use of Bataille’s early work, especially the informe, in the American art history of Rosalind Krauss will be critiqued. The thesis will deploy concepts developed extensively in two late works, Inner Experience and The Accursed Share, to discuss the practice of two visual artists that do not figure in the type of methodology that Krauss adopts; the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon and the Swiss installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Inner Experience, a work revolving around the theme of ‘limit-experience’, will be the catalyst in an analysis of the works of Francis Bacon. This thesis will demonstrate that although Bacon was an avowed atheist, he ventures to capture a sacred and impossible moment in his painting that parallels the “movement of contestation” in “inner experience.” The conception of economy developed in The Accursed Share derives from the germ of Bataille’s economic theory, first outlined in the 1933 essay “The Notion of Expenditure.” Thomas Hirschhorn’s practice and his desire to “work politically” will be examined from the perspective of Bataillean expenditure and the notion of general economy.</p>