![Sample our Arts journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/110799/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Arts.jpg"})
Abstract
This text is an experiment in ‘mythological anthropology’ (Georges Bataille). Through a parody of Hegelian dialectic in which the moment of ‘synthesis’ is displaced by a delirious ‘prosthesis’, autobiographical and historical elements are disfigured in a play of phantasms.
Notes
1 Cited in Georges Bataille ‘The Deviations of Nature’ in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, ed. Allan Stoekl. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985, p. 53.