T.U.

Darmstadt • Fachbereich 15
Bibliothek Architektur u. Stadtebau

Against Architecture:
The Writings of Georges Bataille

Denis Hollier
translated by Betsy Wing

A
An OCTOBER Book

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
Contents

Introduction: Bloody Sundays ix

The Hegelian Edifice
A Simple Beginning 3
The Hegelian Edifice 4
The Tower of Babel 6
The Symbol 10
The Architectural Metaphor

Notre-Dame de Rheims 14
On Bataille 23
Architectural Metaphors 31
Summa Theologica 36
"Architecture": The Article 46
The Labyrinth, the Pyramid, and the Labyrinth
The Labyrinth and the Pyramid 57
The Caesarean
Incomplete 74
Slaughter 76
"The Pineal Eye" 85
1. Homo sapiens 85
2. La tache aveugle: The blind spot 94
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3. Scatology 98
4. The pineal eye 115
5. The blue of noon 129
The Caesarean 138
Notes 173
Index 197