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Bataille, Foucault and the lost futures of transgression
Pawlett, William
Pawlett, William
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2024-11-01
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This paper examines the theme of transgression as it is developed in Bataille’s text L’érotisme of 1957. It is critical of Foucault’s 1963 essay on Bataille Préface á la transgression and it then considers the linked yet distinct processes of transgression, profanation and degradation in contemporary culture. Far from inaugurating a new era of transgression, the last sixty years have seen the dissolution of ‘sexuality’ from supposed limit experience to one of limitless confinement within commodified identity positions. What might a future of transgression, in Bataille’s rather that Foucault’s sense, have looked like and why did it not take place?
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Pawlett, W. (2025) Bataille, Foucault and the lost futures of transgression. Journal for Cultural Research, 29 (1-2), pp. 146-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408330
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© 2024. The Author. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408330
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1479-7585
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1740-1666