A propos yesterday’s post on transition culture and the Bataillian (versus Malthusian) thermodynamics of ecopolitics, the new issue of the Harvard Design Magazine, on “(Sustainability) + Pleasure,” turns out to be all over this topic. Wendy Steiner’s “The Joy of Less” introduces it well, positing a sensualism that’s quite happy with the “pleasure economy” of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Bataille’
pleasures of the (un)sustainable
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged Bataille, ecopolitics, hedonism, sustainability on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
transition culture, ecology, & Bataille’s glorious excesses
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Bataille, ecotheory, McDonough, Ontology, epistemology, recycling, Stoekl, transition towns on September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Reading about the growing “transition towns” movement back to back with a read-through of Design Philosophy Papers’ latest issue on Bataille and “Inefficient Sustainability” has gotten me thinking about some of the unspoken premises that make their way into environmentalists’ prognostications of the future. The transition towns movement began in Totnes, England, home of the […]