TY - JOUR
TI - Hair, real and undefined in Georges Bataille
AU - Galland, Sébastien
TI - Hair, real and undefined in Georges Bataille
AB - An emblem of heterology, hair causes horripilation and fascination: it is a part of the shapelessness that signals a rejection of rationality and philosophy, of metaphorisation and aesthetics, favouring instead ugliness, abjectness and material baseness. It verges on an unheimlich (uncanny) zone, which borders on the unrepresentable. Thus, this irreducible object unleashes the transgressive power of the sacred, that, no doubt, of eroticism, but even more so, that of the Dionysiac, which is the will for power and an increase in the feeling of being alive, against ascetic, hygienist or fascist ideals. Hair would be the fetish, attesting to the perverse structure of the forbidden and of civilization.
VL - 2020
IS - Numéro 23
PY - 2020
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 63
EP - 77
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.20.012.12819
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/le-poil-le-reel-et-linforme-chez-georges-bataille
KW - hair
KW - informe
KW - distortion
KW - vitalism
KW - anti-puritanism