[FRIAM] L'informe & La Part maudite

[Steve Smith]

Jon -
> Somehow this post reminds me of George Bataille's "L’informe":
>
> "A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their
> tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a
> term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that
> each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and
> gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. In fact, for
> academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of
> philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what
> is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the
> universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the
> universe is something like a spider or spit."

"no longer gives the meaning of... but their tasks..." seems like an
echo of some of Glen's sentiments here?

Which lead me to his:

/La Part maudite /(from Wikipedia)/:
/

    According to Bataille's theory of consumption, the accursed share is
    that excessive and non-recuperable part of any economy which must
    either be spent luxuriously and knowingly without gain in the arts,
    in non-procreative sexuality, in spectacles and sumptuous monuments,
    or it is obliviously destined to an outrageous and catastrophic
    outpouring, in the contemporary age most often in war, or in former
    ages as destructive and ruinous acts of giving or sacrifice, but
    always in a manner that threatens the prevailing system.

... of which I was vaguely aware... it seems to have a place in
SGuerin's  application of "Least Action" to Socioeconomic systems?

- Steve
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