William Pawlett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Pawlett |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Pawlett |
| SIGNATURE | PAWLETT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bataille, Foucault and the lost futures of transgression
c) 2024. The Author. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408330
Bataille and the Left Pole of Sacred
This article examines the notions of left and right poles of Georges Bataille’s sacredness and also analyses their complexity and ambiguous meaning of duality and binary’s contexts through a prism they are usually viewed. Particularly, key factors that influence Bataille’s thought of sacredness are being analysed, the criticism of wrong notion of sacredness interpretation by modern philosophers is being formed. Based on challenging positions of s…
‘Media Events’ reconsidered
This paper re-examines the long-established notion of ‘media events’ by contrasting and critically appraising three distinct approaches to the question of media events. These are: ritual theory associated with Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, secondly, Jean Baudrillard’s approach rooted in his notions of simulation and ‘non-events’ and, finally, the more recent performative approaches to media and mediation. I take Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska’s …
The Sacred, Heterology and Transparency
This article re-examines Bataille's increasingly influential notion of the sacred, with particular emphasis on the left or impure aspects of the sacred and their relationship to social structure or topology. Bataille's understanding of the 'sacred nucleus' of society is examined in detail, particularly his suggestion that society endures only as the hardening of the conduits of sacred and profane around a radically heterogeneous, impure or 'filth…
Violence, Society and Radical Theory
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled ’inexplicable’ - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful. The book offers an understanding of violence as fundamental to social r…
Jean Baudrillard
This introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career but focuses on his central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges
The Use-Value of Georges Bataille
Utility and excess
This paper consists of three sections. In the first in will attempt it will attempt to establish the theoretical centrality of the contrasting notions of utility and of excess in relation to their treatements within the 'sociological mainstream'. The second section will introduce antother, radical sociological lineage extending from Nietzsche through Bataille and on to baudrillard. It will be argued that this ineage offers a more adequate approac…
Utility and excess
This paper consists of three sections. In the first in will attempt it will attempt to establish the theoretical centrality of the contrasting notions of utility and of excess in relation to their treatements within the 'sociological mainstream'. The second section will introduce antother, radical sociological lineage extending from Nietzsche through Bataille and on to baudrillard. It will be argued that this ineage offers a more adequate approac…
Bataille, Foucault and the lost futures of transgression
c) 2024. The Author. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408330
The Sacred, Heterology and Transparency
This article re-examines Bataille's increasingly influential notion of the sacred, with particular emphasis on the left or impure aspects of the sacred and their relationship to social structure or topology. Bataille's understanding of the 'sacred nucleus' of society is examined in detail, particularly his suggestion that society endures only as the hardening of the conduits of sacred and profane around a radically heterogeneous, impure or 'filth…
The Use-Value of Georges Bataille
Utility and excess
This paper consists of three sections. In the first in will attempt it will attempt to establish the theoretical centrality of the contrasting notions of utility and of excess in relation to their treatements within the 'sociological mainstream'. The second section will introduce antother, radical sociological lineage extending from Nietzsche through Bataille and on to baudrillard. It will be argued that this ineage offers a more adequate approac…
Jean Baudrillard
This introduction to Jean Baudrillard's controversial writings covers his entire career but focuses on his central, but little understood, notion of symbolic exchange. Through the clarification of this key term a very different Baudrillard emerges
Violence, Society and Radical Theory
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard, applying these to a range of violent events - events often labelled ’inexplicable’ - in order to show how even the most extreme of acts can be seen as socially meaningful. The book offers an understanding of violence as fundamental to social r…
‘Media Events’ reconsidered
This paper re-examines the long-established notion of ‘media events’ by contrasting and critically appraising three distinct approaches to the question of media events. These are: ritual theory associated with Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, secondly, Jean Baudrillard’s approach rooted in his notions of simulation and ‘non-events’ and, finally, the more recent performative approaches to media and mediation. I take Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska’s …
The Sacred, Heterology and Transparency
This article re-examines Bataille's increasingly influential notion of the sacred, with particular emphasis on the left or impure aspects of the sacred and their relationship to social structure or topology. Bataille's understanding of the 'sacred nucleus' of society is examined in detail, particularly his suggestion that society endures only as the hardening of the conduits of sacred and profane around a radically heterogeneous, impure or 'filth…
Bataille and the Left Pole of Sacred
This article examines the notions of left and right poles of Georges Bataille’s sacredness and also analyses their complexity and ambiguous meaning of duality and binary’s contexts through a prism they are usually viewed. Particularly, key factors that influence Bataille’s thought of sacredness are being analysed, the criticism of wrong notion of sacredness interpretation by modern philosophers is being formed. Based on challenging positions of s…
Bataille, Foucault and the lost futures of transgression
c) 2024. The Author. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2408330
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Law (2 works)