The Limit of the Useful
GEORGES BATAILLE
Publisher: The MIT Press
Cover Design: Erin Hasley
5 x 8 in
The first English-language translation of early writings, bridging the gap between Bataille’s surrealist literature and scientific critique.
Image Credit: Anna Atkins, Dictyota atomaria, cyanotype, ca. 1853. Gilman Collection, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005