Thinking Through the One and the Many
The question of the relation between the one and the many has shaped Western philosophy from its beginnings. ‘One’ or ‘many’? may sound like a simple question but it touches on two profound puzzles: how can unity and multiplicity coexist in a single (unified or multiple) reality? And, what is more fundamental – the one […]
Abundance, Surplus, Intimacy
In The Accursed Share, George Bataille asks: ‘Why would classical economy have thought that in the beginning a mode of acquisition such as exchange had not answered the need to acquire, but rather the contrary, the need to lose or squander’? He goes on to suggest that excess and transgression are not aberrations but rather […]