Abstract
Abstract The subject of the article, which is a revised version of the radio segment Object of the Month at Radio Študent, is the Solar Anus, short early text of the French sociologist and writer George Bataille. Solar Anus is also the object, concept and title of the masochistic performance of the US artist Ron Athey. If this serves as an opening question of the actualization of Bataille’s text in the specific cultural context and a parallel interpretation, the article departs from the understanding of the Solar Anus as a more radical and ineradicable form of currently topical ecological, systemic and elemental thinking. In this, the concept of general economy and non-productive consumption is a crucial part along with the materialistic understanding of transgression and excess and the links between the fact of cosmic annihilation and the political-economic order.
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