Introduction / Will Stronge -- Frenzy, feeder, falcon : eroticism in the twenty-first century / Scott Wilson -- Bataille's nature : on (not) having one's feet on the ground / Patrick ffrench -- Bataille and the left pole of the sacred / William Pawlett -- Making more (of waste) / Stuart Kendall -- Georges Bataille as a thinker of statehood : a relational and materialist approach / Teresa Pullano -- Guilty, capable, extravagant, dialectic / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Useless practices in sacred spaces : Bataille's elegance and the aesthetics of sovereignty / Kevin Kennedy -- 'The only real outlaws' : animal freedom in Bataille / Oxana Timofeeva -- Black metal theory : speculating with Bataille's unfinished system - 'mystical vomit' from Neoplatonism to Neroplatonism / Edia Connole -- The politics of excess and restraint : reading Bataille alongside and against accelerationism / Eugene Brennan -- Bataille and the neanderthal extinction / Howard Caygill -- On thinking at the end of the world : Derrida, Lyotard, Bataille / Michael Lewis.
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