The Lexicon · Genealogy · 19th Century
BATAILLE, GEORGES
1897–1962
General Economy (The Liturgy of Surplus)
Bataille distinguished restricted economy (gain, savings, productivity) from general economy (loss, expenditure, the sun). CoCA practices general economy as accounting. The 87,000 dollars requested in Part II are restricted-economy figures, but they fund a restricted-economy art (Limbo: extract, file) that produces a general-economy good (the GAI: free, perpetual, undefended). The sun loses heat and asks nothing back. The archive is solar.