Ce mémoire étudie la série Aux Abattoirs de la Villette photographiée par Eli Lotar en 1929. Il montre comment elle a été assimilée par l’histoire de l’art au texte « Abattoir » de Georges Bataille, aux côtés duquel ont été reproduites trois photos du corpus sous la rubrique Dictionnaire critique de la revue Documents. Cette emprise théorique sur la série est mise en perspective au regard de la démarche artistique d’Eli Lotar et des autres photomontages dont elle a fait l’objet ensuite. Le premier chapitre insiste sur la formation d’Eli Lotar et introduit son séjour à La Villette en lien avec la thématique de l’abattoir dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Il analyse ensuite la fortune critique d’Aux Abattoirs de la Villette qui s’appuie sur la philosophie de l’informe chez Georges Bataille. Le deuxième chapitre analyse le photomontage de la série fait par E.L.T. Mesens dans Variétés (1930) et le photoreportage reconstitué par Carlo Rim dans Vu (1931). Selon des points de vue et un travail formel différents, tous deux accentuent la dimension humaine de l’industrie d’abattage animal. Le troisième chapitre fait apparaître le regard posé par Eli Lotar sur le site de La Villette en tenant compte de ses préoccupations socio-artistiques à travers ses collaborations auprès de Germaine Krull et Joris Ivens. Finalement, il dresse une analyse comparative de la série avec la toile Abattoir d’André Masson, le poème Porte Brancion de Raymond Queneau et le film Le sang des bêtes de Georges Franju pour renforcer les spécificités du médium photographique. / This master’s thesis is a study of the whole series Aux Abattoirs de la Villette, photographed by Eli Lotar in 1929. It demonstrates how the thirty-four prints were merged into Georges Bataille’s philosophy by the art historians of the 1990’s who based their interpretations upon the text « Abattoir ». This was published under the heading Dictionnaire critique inside Documents magazine. The series is taken apart from Bataille’s purpose in light of Lotar’s preoccupations and of the other editions of the photographs during the inter-war period. The first chapter insists on Eli Lotar’s photographic education preceding his visit to La Villette’s site in context with the slaughterhouse’s topic in the art Avant-garde. Then, it evaluates Aux Abattoirs de la Villette’s critical review based on Bataille’s conceptions of formless and sacrifices. The second chapter analyses the authorship conferred to the photomontages carried out by E.L.T. Mesens in Variétés (1930), who accentuates the similarities between the photographic and the slaughter cutting operations, and by Carlo Rim in Vu (1931), who reveals the human dimension of La Villette’s industry. The third chapter focuses on Lotar’s social preoccupations by according an importance to his collaborations with Germaine Krull and Joris Ivens. Finally, the series is addressed in an "intermediatic" perspective to emphasize the photographic point of view by comparing it with the painting Abattoir by André Masson, the poem Porte Brancion by Raymond Queneau and the film Le sang des bêtes by George Franju.

A produção textual de Georges Bataille (1897-1962), privilegiadamente estudada nos campos da Literatura e da Filosofia, apresenta uma vasta gama de temas e é considerada por seus comentadores como refratária a qualquer classificação rigorosa e indexável. Contudo, ele é autor de uma obra de grande interesse para área da Antropologia em função de um forte experimentalismo dos conceitos e da escrita e de uma compreensão totalizante da experiência do pesquisador e do escritor. O presente estudo tem como objetivo o exame de parte específica da produção e atuação de Bataille que coincide com os inícios da institucionalização da antropologia francesa (anos 1920- 1930), quando o autor encontra-se envolvido com o projeto da revista Documents, Doctrines Archélogie Beaux-Arts Ethnographie (1929-1930) e bastante próximo dos antropólogos que colaboram com a publicação. Ao recuperar a formação primeira de Bataille como arquivista paleógrafo na École des chartes e seus primeiros escritos e interesses, entre os quais se encontra a antropologia de Marcel Mauss, o trabalho se dedica a construir as conexões entre a profissão de arquivista paleógrafo nas bibliotecas Francesas e a produção do escritor que tem lugar entre os anos 1918 e 1930, interessado em destacar os nexos entre essas dimensões e o processo de constituição dos museus na França sobretudo aquele que culminará no Musée de lHomme (1937). As experiências nas bibliotecas, nos museus e na revista colocam Bataille diante da questão da classificação e do arquivamento de objetos e documentos. O interesse em uma leitura de Bataille por essa via que procura relacionar a institucionalização da disciplina etnográfica na França ligada à formação, catalogação e arquivamento de documentos nos museus e o processo de criação do Dicionário de Documents auxilia a iluminar uma dupla intervenção crítica que consiste em construir um deslocamento, uma derivação da forma de pensar. Essa perspectiva diversa nos oferece um duplo olhar para os modos pelos quais a reflexão sobre o lugar das histórias da disciplina e seus praticantes tem sido experimentada. / This present study has the purpose of examining some specific parts of George Bataille´s production and action that correspond with the beginning of French anthropology institutionalization (1920s and 1930s), when the author finds himself immersed in the Documents, Doctrines Archélogie Beaux-Arts Ethnographie (1929-1930) magazine project and building a very close relationship with the professionals involved in the publications creation. By resuming Batailles first occupation as paleographer archivist at École des chartes and his primary written pieces and interests, among which is the anthropology of Marcel Mauss, the work is dedicated to build connections between his job inside French libraries and his activities as a writer from 1918 to 1930, when his interests were focused on highlighting the links between these dimensions and the constitution of the museums in France - especially the one that will culminate at the Musée de l\'Homme (1937). The experiences in the libraries, museums and the magazine put Bataille before the classification and filing of objects and documents. His interest in this path that searches for relating the institutionalization of the ethnographic discipline in France connected to framing ideas, cataloging and archiving documents in museums and the creational process of the Dictionary of the magazine helps to illuminate a double critical intervention that consists in building a movement, an offshoot of thinking. This different perspective offers us another look to the means through which the reflections on the place discipline stories and its practitioners have been experienced.

Il est peu de notions aussi vastes que celle du non-savoir, mais le flou du caractère nécessairement négatif de sa définition s'accompagne tout de même du sentiment que la source de ce qui ne peut qu'être déterminé négativement par la pensée (non, cela n'est pas le savoir) ne peut qu'être positive. Notion à l'applicabilité infinie, parce qu'en elle vient s'abîmer tout ce qui ne peut tenir dans l'espace de la maîtrise relative à ce dont on peut dire : je sais de quoi il s'agit. Est non-savoir tout ce qui se rapporte au bouillonnement pulsionnel de la vie et à l'échéance fatale de la mort. Ce qui pousse l'homme au meurtre, au génocide, à la guerre et à la violence révolutionnaire se confond avec un contenu affectif et identitaire qui ne peut être ramené au savoir sans laisser de reste. Mais tenter de comprendre ce qui échappe à l'entendement est cela même qui relance sans cesse la réflexion comprise comme cœur du savoir. Le savoir se montre ainsi sous une extrême dépendance face à son Autre. À la lumière de cette hypothèse devant beaucoup aux découvertes de la psychanalyse, le présent mémoire s'est donné pour objectif de jeter un regard frais sur quelques grandes tensions sociopolitiques de l'Histoire; mais il a d'abord fallu évaluer philosophiquement la possibilité d'un concept de non-savoir. Des champs identitaires majeurs -- révolutions totalitaires ou démocratiques, bouleversements ou synergies culturelles -- sont ainsi analysés sous l'angle d'une économie pulsionnelle qui s'inscrit dans une interaction perpétuelle avec ce qui s'ébauche ici comme une économie du rapport entre non-savoir et savoir. Est ainsi produite une esquisse des rapports possibles entre la vie pulsionnelle de l'homme, le savoir institutionnel et le monde sociopolitique.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:19:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natalia Rolim Rosa.pdf: 1388885 bytes, checksum: 88aeb764bc7488d897a40683bb4808e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-01 / This dissertation analyzes the thinking of Georges Bataille with the objective to investigate in his intempestivity the conception of eroticism. The complex movement that the author wages to develop this concept allows new possibilities to approach the nature/culture border, as well as animality and humanity concepts. In the introdution of The Eroctism the author announces to be in search of the Man in its totality, turning himself against the fragmentaries lines to pursuit the idea of a whole. This pursuance will be given by human passion and its only object, that implies in a tour upon the human spirit and its inner life. In the innerness of the being there is the encounter with the most overwhelming experiences, with the holy, the beauty, the horror and the passion. In the Baitaille's proposition there isn't borders between man and animal, mind and body, life and death; these instances constantly overflows one another and is in this intempestive movement that he sees the totality of the being. In this complex and unexpected field of human inner life, the being oversteps the limitrophes of the objective conscience into disconcerting experiences in which the conscience dissolves itself in the corporeal. The intent of this work it's to comprehend the totality that the batailliam thought seeks to reach in the inner experience consception by the means of problematization of the notions of eroctism, animality and humanity / Esta dissertação analisa o pensamento de Georges Bataille com o objetivo de investigar em sua intempestividade a concepção de erotismo. O complexo movimento que o autor trava ao desenvolver esse conceito permite novas possibilidades para abordar a fronteira natureza/cultura, assim como os conceitos de animalidade e humanidade. Na introdução de O Erotismo o autor anuncia estar à procura do homem em sua totalidade, volta-se contra as linhas fragmentárias para perseguir a ideia de conjunto. Essa busca se dá pela paixão humana e seu único objeto, que implica num passeio sobre o espírito humano e sua vida interior. Na interioridade do ser há o encontro com as experiências mais avassaladoras, com o sagrado, a beleza, o horror e a paixão. Na proposta de Bataille não há fronteiras entre homem e animal, mente e corpo, vida e morte; estas instâncias constantemente transbordam uma na outra e é neste movimento intempestivo que vê a totalidade do ser. Neste campo complexo e imprevisto da vida interior humana, o ser ultrapassa os limítrofes da consciência objetiva para experiências desconcertantes em que a consciência se dissolve no corpóreo. O intuito do trabalho é compreender a totalidade que o pensamento batailliano busca atingir na concepção de experiência interior por meio da problematização das noções de erotismo, animalidade e humanidade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natalia Rolim Rosa.pdf: 1388885 bytes, checksum: 88aeb764bc7488d897a40683bb4808e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-01 / This dissertation analyzes the thinking of Georges Bataille with the objective to investigate in his intempestivity the conception of eroticism. The complex movement that the author wages to develop this concept allows new possibilities to approach the nature/culture border, as well as animality and humanity concepts. In the introdution of The Eroctism the author announces to be in search of the Man in its totality, turning himself against the fragmentaries lines to pursuit the idea of a whole. This pursuance will be given by human passion and its only object, that implies in a tour upon the human spirit and its inner life. In the innerness of the being there is the encounter with the most overwhelming experiences, with the holy, the beauty, the horror and the passion. In the Baitaille's proposition there isn't borders between man and animal, mind and body, life and death; these instances constantly overflows one another and is in this intempestive movement that he sees the totality of the being. In this complex and unexpected field of human inner life, the being oversteps the limitrophes of the objective conscience into disconcerting experiences in which the conscience dissolves itself in the corporeal. The intent of this work it's to comprehend the totality that the batailliam thought seeks to reach in the inner experience consception by the means of problematization of the notions of eroctism, animality and humanity / Esta dissertação analisa o pensamento de Georges Bataille com o objetivo de investigar em sua intempestividade a concepção de erotismo. O complexo movimento que o autor trava ao desenvolver esse conceito permite novas possibilidades para abordar a fronteira natureza/cultura, assim como os conceitos de animalidade e humanidade. Na introdução de O Erotismo o autor anuncia estar à procura do homem em sua totalidade, volta-se contra as linhas fragmentárias para perseguir a ideia de conjunto. Essa busca se dá pela paixão humana e seu único objeto, que implica num passeio sobre o espírito humano e sua vida interior. Na interioridade do ser há o encontro com as experiências mais avassaladoras, com o sagrado, a beleza, o horror e a paixão. Na proposta de Bataille não há fronteiras entre homem e animal, mente e corpo, vida e morte; estas instâncias constantemente transbordam uma na outra e é neste movimento intempestivo que vê a totalidade do ser. Neste campo complexo e imprevisto da vida interior humana, o ser ultrapassa os limítrofes da consciência objetiva para experiências desconcertantes em que a consciência se dissolve no corpóreo. O intuito do trabalho é compreender a totalidade que o pensamento batailliano busca atingir na concepção de experiência interior por meio da problematização das noções de erotismo, animalidade e humanidade

Tel qu’il a été formulé par Georges Bataille dans Documents, dans les premières décennies du XXe siècle, l’informe s’est avéré être un puissant moteur de réflexion. Il a fait naître des œuvres qui disent s’en inspirer, et motivé un âpre débat théorique sur le véritable sens à lui donner. Qu’est-ce que l’informe, en effet ? Cette catégorie complexe et paradoxale s’avère très fructueuse dans l’analyse des œuvres théoriques, plastiques et littéraires de la Renaissance qui s’intéressent à la naissance des formes. L’utilisation d’une notion anachronique permet de réunir dans un même ensemble les préoccupations concernant les origines de l’œuvre d’art, celles sur la bonne composition, ainsi que celles concernant la Matière et l’Être. Ce travail dégage ainsi ce qui serait une poétique de la forme en devenir, poétique se réclamant de la philosophie néo-aristotélicienne de l’époque mais opérant un élargissement d’horizons et une refonte conceptuelle très éloignés de la pensée antique. / From the early XXth century the Formless, as defined by Georges Bataille in Documents, has revealed itself to be a powerful tool for reflection. It has inspired art works and triggered an ongoing debate about its true meaning, for what is the formless exactly? In search for its essence, this category has proven to be of great value when analyzing theoretical, artistic and literary Renaissance works dealing with the birth of form. The anachronic notion of Formless permits an intertwining of questions regarding the origins of the piece of art, good composition, matter and being. Through this essay we will discuss the poetics of art in the making, so-called (neo)Aristotelian in the XVIth century – poetics in a constant and fluid definition of the Aristotelian meaning enlarged by non-Aristotelian concepts, and categories distant to those attributed to it in classical times.

in English The aim of the study is to show Bataille's esthetic thoughts, dispersed in several Bataille's works, as a consistent theory of art. Through his fascination for cruel and evil, Bataille turns his interest to the matter and in revue called Documents he describes the appeal of low forms due to their proximity to formlessness. Beyond this frontier there is a sphere of "not-knowing", where the logical reason can not impenetrate. This sphere of excess is not only out of logical concept, but also out of our life, i. e. before our birth and after our death. In an organized society this sphere is forbidden. The tabu that guards it protects us from the destructive forces of chaos which could appear through the death rage, violent sexual passions, cruelty and evil. Human desire to see what is in this sphere comes from his nostalgia for a naturalness which had been lost when we changed from animals into human beings. The animal does not obey any rule and in ancient societies it used to represent the divinity. The lost intimity of present instant, as explained in Lascaux or Literature et le Mal, is mediated to us through religious transgression of law (sacrifice) or as fiction in art (transgression in modus "a like") or through destruction of academic forms. Such moments are always accompanied by...

The war represents one of the most conspicuous manifestations of the overabundance of energy that Georges Bataille has been theorizing as part of his theory of general economics. On the background of this facts, work seeks to define war as an inherently non-utilitarian expenditure of energy with which the human must necessarily contend. Next, the work attempts to question the common denominators of the excessive moments that war undoubtedly belongs to, and to point out their importance in philosophy of Bataille. The sovereignty that accompanies such moments will be further themed, bearing in mind the specificity that the author devotes to it, which breaks out of dialectical necessity. Keywords: Georges Bataille, sovereignty, accursed share, heterogeneity, self-consciousness, critique of utilitarity, war

L’objectif de la thèse est de montrer en quoi le roman ou la littérature incarne une forme de connaissance qui lui est propre, que Pierre Klossowski appelle la « connaissance pathétique ». Celle-ci fait appel aux passions plutôt qu’à la seule raison et repose sur des percepts et des affects bien davantage que sur des idées et sur des concepts. L’œuvre romanesque de Georges Bataille et de Pierre Klossowski me servira d’exemple et d’objet d’analyse, dans la mesure où l’écriture fictionnelle y est toujours au service d’une ‘’passion’’ philosophique, dans laquelle l’auteur entraîne ses personnages en même temps que le lecteur. Cette « connaissance pathétique » que le sujet est amené à vivre passe notamment par les mécanismes d’une écriture qui tente d’énoncer l’innommable. Cette orientation esthétique suit la voie tracée par Nietzsche, et les grandes thématiques associées à ce dernier constituent à la fois, au niveau de l’énoncé, un contenu thématique et diégétique récurrent (par exemple : dans Le Baphomet, nous sommes en présence du personnage de Friedrich l’Antéchrist) et, au niveau de l’énonciation, une stratégie narrative qui consiste à piéger le lecteur dans un système d’interprétations ambiguës, contradictoires et provocatrices qui déclenchent chez lui une activité cognitive effrénée, de nature passionnelle ou pathétique (par exemple : Le récit Les lois de l’hospitalité commence par un avertissement au lecteur, où on le met en garde contre « l’attrape concertée » que représente le récit). J’étudierai en détail, sur le plan de l’expression et du contenu, ces stratégies cognitives de la transgression et du simulacre grâce auxquelles l’auteur amène ses personnages et son lecteur à éprouver des pensées comme une forme de passion. L’analyse de la poétique pathique comme forme privilégiée de l’écriture narrative chez Pierre Klossowski et chez Georges Bataille nécessitera le recours à une analyse de l’œuvre de Nietzsche et de Sade dans un premier temps pour retracer ce qui est l’enjeu de la réception de ces œuvres par les deux auteurs français. Dans un deuxième temps, l’analyse des œuvres de Georges Bataille et de Pierre Klossowski me permettra de comprendre comment elles déclenchent chez le lecteur une expérience pathétique où la difficulté d’atteindre à une connaissance rationnelle univoque déclenche chez le destinataire du texte une activité cognitive complexe de nature proprement littéraire ou romanesque. Enfin, le corpus qui me servira d’exemple dans la description de ces phénomènes sera constitué des principales œuvres discursives de Bataille et de Klossowski (L’expérience intérieure, Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux) ainsi que de leurs œuvres romanesques (L’histoire de l’œil, Divinus Deus, L’abbé C., La vocation suspendue, Les lois de l’hospitalité et Le Baphomet). / This thesis aims to show how the novel or literature in general embodies its own form of knowledge that Pierre Klossowski names “connaissance pathétique” (pathetic knowledge). This knowledge derives from emotivity rather than reason alone and relies on affects and percepts rather than on ideas and concepts. The works of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski will serve both as the examples and the objects of this analysis. These two authors’ fictional writings inevitably appeal to a philosophical pathos that implicate the characters as well as the reader. This “pathetic knowledge” that the subject is called to experience comes to be through the literary process seeking to name the unnamable. This particular aesthetic draws upon Nietzsche’s work, the themes of which taken up in Bataille and Klossowski writings and appear on the levels of subject matter and narration. The resulting writing strategy leads the reader along, presenting a system of provocative, contradictory, and ambiguous interpretations that open up an affect-oriented knowing or thinking. In studying the expression and content of this literary knowing, we will examine how the authors rely on strategies of transgression and simulacra to enable the characters and readers to experience thinking as a form of pathos. In analyzing this “pathetic” poetics as the privileged form of narration in Bataille and Klossowski, this thesis first examines the works of Nietzsche (and, to a lesser extent, those of Sade) in order to understand their impact on the French authors’ works. The thesis’ second part, which focuses on Bataille’s and Klossowski’s writings, demonstrates how their works provoke in the reader a pathetic experience of knowing, particular to literature, that exceeds the knowing ascribed to rationalism. The corpus explored in this research includes Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, The Genealogy of Moral and The Gaya Scienza; Bataille’s L’histoire de l’oeil, Divinus Deus and L’abbé C.; and Klossowski’s La vocation suspendue, Les lois de l’hospitalité and Le Baphomet.