The Work of Leisure: The Figure of Empty Time in the Poetics of Holderlin and Mandelshtam

Magun, Artemy

doi:10.1353/mln.2004.0018

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“…Such exploitation of this overabundant, surplus force would, according to Marx, lead capitalism into the crisis of overproduction and allow working masses to "reappropriate" their surplus labor for their free development. (Magun 2003(Magun : 1153 As noted by Magun (2010: 97), Bataille further develops these ideas by turning it from productive labor to nonproductive expenditure, but does not really articulate how his own ideas correspond to Marx's theory. A connection between Bataille's squander and Marx's leisure can be traced through the concept of free play (freies Spiele) referred to by Marx (Ibid;Marx andEngels 1975-2005: 35.270).…”

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From the Quarantine to the General Strike: On Bataille’s Political Economy

Timofeeva¹

2020

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The essay explores Bataille's general economy as the theory of nonproductive expenditure and its implications for a new politics of nature. It suggests that this theory, elaborated by Bataille in the 1940s, can be valid today and applicable in the analysis of the most urgent problems of contemporary humanity such as the COVID-19 pandemic or climate change. The reading of general economy that is presented in this essay evokes the Bataillean 1 The results were obtained in the framework of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation, project No 20-68-46044 "Imaginary Anthropocene: environmental knowledge production and transfers in Siberia in the XX-XXI centuries." 7 eng

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confidence: 99%