synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

for the name of the secret society of Bataille, ACEPHALE, on the internet,
one of the links that pops up is the current British site for the Zapatista Army
of National Liberation, (EZLN), and its on-line recruitment link
[chiapaslink@acephale.org]
In 1929, Georges-Henry Riviere, Michel Leiris, Paul Rivet, Georges
Bataille and Pierre d'Espezel became co-founders of {Documents}, a revue
of Ethnology which lasted only two years and published 15 issues. In 1938,
Riviere and Michel Leiris became the founders of the most important
museum of anthropology of France, {Le Musee de l'Homme}. The studies of
Ethnology and Anthropology were considered excellent areas for launching
undercover operations in different countries around the world. It was Riviere
who established the methodology of {Documents} and Bataille and Leiris
were to become his two primary associates.
From the beginning, the revue was split into two factions. The Bataille
group, which included ex-surrealist writers associated with the Dada and
Grand Jeu groups of Paris and presented all sorts of heteroclite elements.
The more conservative group, led by Espezel, wanted to maintain a standard
of academic research and was promoting more traditional views on ancient
and modern ethnology. As a result of the rift between Bataille and Espezel, a
compromise was reached whereby a new section of the revue was created, a
magazine within the magazine, called {Critical Dictionary}, which was
going to contain the most radical material.
In an on line book on Bataille and Acephale, the author (?) states:
"Another member of the editorial board, Paul Rivet, was the founder with
Marcel Mauss of the Institut d'Ethnologie, which laid down the ground-rules
for field-work which became the basis for all future ethnographic research.
Marcel Griaule, a contributor to the {Critical Dictionary}, was to become
one of its most celebrated practitioners. Between 1931 and 1933, Griaule led
the Dakar-Djibouti expedition, the largest ethnographic expedition ever
undertaken to date, with Leiris as its official secretary." (Documents and the
Critical Dictionary) [See also Dominique Lecoq, {Documents, Acéphale,
Critique: Bataille autour des revues}, in {Georges Bataille, Actes du
Colloque d'Amsterdam}, June 1985, Jan Versteeg [ed.] pp.117-130.)
Georges Waldenstein was the financial backer of Bataille and his
review {Documents}. Waldenstein was the proprietor of the celebrated
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