Bataille and Deleuze's Peculiar Askesis: Techniques of Transgression, Meditation and Dramatisation
Deleuze and Guattari Studies April 24, 2020 Janae Sholtz
This article explores the ethical imperative to dramatise in the work of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, two of the most radical thinkers in twentieth-century philosophy, as a peculiar kind of askesis. Whereas askesis is often associated with asceticism or self-denial, in the sense of self-regulation and abstention, Bataille and Deleuze advocate training the self towards intensification of...