CROOKED PATH

Try to see it my way... (2006) - Mark Hudson's description of a 2006 art exhibition on Documents highlights Bataille's troubled relationship with Surrealism.

Bataille on Psychological Structure of Fascism (2020) - Shannon Bell explains the historical context of "The Psychological Structure of Facsism," focusing on the homogeneous, the heterogeneous, and sovereignty. (Warning: the audio is very loud and harsh, and only works on the left side)

Erotic Exuberance: Bataille's Notion of Eroticism (2017) - Thomas Minguy explains the relation of Bataille's Eros to (dis)continuity, death, transgression, sovereignty, and the sacred.

Introduction to Georges Bataille (1979) - John Brenkman connects the essay to class struggle of the 1930s, gift economies, and Bataille's thinking on fascism.

Documents (1929-1930)

• Story of the Eye (1928) -

• The Big Toe (1929) (1929)

The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade (1930)

The Solar Anus (1931)

The Notion of Expenditure (1933)

The Psychological Structure of Fascism (1933)

Acéphale (1936-1939)

• The Sacred Conspiracy (1936)

• Nietzsche and the Fascists (1937)

The Accursed Share (1949)

• Volume I

• Volumes II and III

The Cruel Practice of Art (1949)

Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1957) - This book’s title is sometimes spelled Eroticism.

Literature and Evil (1957)

Georges Bataille: Literature and Evil (1958) - Bataille explains to interviewer Pierre Dumayet the significance of the book's title, the relationship of literature and evil, and its connections with Erotism.

Georges Bataille: The Dark Soul of the Night (2018) - Andrew Kuiper argues that Bataille's insights (namely from Theory of Religion) are relevant to Catholic thought.

Georges Bataille's Experience (2018, limited monthly access) - Michael Mocatta connects sovereignty, the sacred, the horizontal and vertical axes, and internal and external experiences to mental health and recovery.

Sovereign Disregard: On Bataille's Accursed Share (2020) - Timothy Lavenz describes Bataille's account of sovereignty in volume 3 of The Accursed Share and contrasts it with today's worship of celebrities and finance.

Georges Bataille - Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations (last accessed 11/11/2022) - Stuart Elden has compiled a list of Bataille's writings and where to find their English translations.

À perte de vue - André S. Labarthe (1997)

Bataille: Nietzche or Communism? An Interview with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon - Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (May 20, 2022)

Bataille's "The Solar Anus" or the Parody of Parodies - Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Studies in 20th Century Literature (2001)

Black Bataille - Aria Dean, November (2021)

Eroticism by Georges Bataille - Mark Price, Philosophy Now (2004)

Georges Bataille and the Continuity of Life - Michael Zemel, Blue Labyrinths (December 1, 2021)

Georges Bataille's Erotism: Libertinism, Religion, and Death - Moses May-Hobbs, The Collector (October 23, 2022)

When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy - Jean Baudrillard, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory (December 1, 1991)