The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano

On the occasion of the publication of the second volume of Bataille’s Critical Essays, which collects previously untranslated texts by George Bataille, Jared Bly interviewed its editors, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano. The interview covers Bataille’s complex relationship with fascism, the relationship between heteronormativity and the sciences in his work, the status of the “lacerating image” in a mediatized world, and the significance of thinking through the “instant” in the context of predominant future-oriented thinking.

My bibliography of Bataille’s writings in English will be updated when I see a copy of Critical Essays volume II: Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations