Reading group - Georges Bataille, Inner Experience
The LUCAS research reading group The Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics is dedicated to examining affective, cognitive-enactive, and new materialist approaches to the arts.
It is open to anyone interested in experiential interactions between the arts (in a broad sense), their makers, and audiences.
Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” reading group session to discuss passages from Georges Bataille, Inner Experience (l’Expérience intérieure), in the translation of Stuart Kendall (2014), as selected and briefly introduced by Menno Lenting. All welcome!
For the reading:
“Critique of Dogmatic Servitude (and of Mysticism)” (pp. 9–11),
“Experience, Sole Authority, Sole Value” (pp. 13–16), and
“Torture” (pp. 37–66).
Wednesday 24 June 2026, 12:15–14:00
