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

For the purpose of creating grandiose terrorists events, Bataille had
created a "{sacred secret society}" called Acephale, which was, in fact, a
recruiting center for sacrificial celebrations. This was part of the synarchy
set up of left-right recruiting groups among the intellectuals of France before
World War II, especially around Alexander Kojeve and Jacques Lacan. The
not so secret purpose of Acephale was to extend religious action against the
profane world: "The profane world must, in turn, be destroyed as such;"
exclaimed Bataille, "that is to say, everything inside capitalism that is given
as a thing that transcends man and dominates him must be reduced to the
state of an immanent thing by a subordination to consumption by man."
History professor, Owen Bradley, put it as follows: "Sacrifice for Bataille is
therefore an eminently political category. He defines sovereignty as that
power of extravagant expenditure that devotes itself 'in a privileged fashion
to glorious activity, to useless consumption" (Bataille, {La Part maudite}, p.
73), to the shedding of wealth in potlatch or the shedding of blood in
sacrifice or war." (Owen Bradley,{A Modern Maistre}, University of
Nebraska Press, 1999, p. 79)
The May 1968 student revolts, in France, that Charles de Gaulle had
identified as the "{Chienlit}" (Shit in bed), were set up and launched
precisely as a series of such {transgressive expenditures} of social energy.
As a matter of fact, excrement was one of Bataille's favorite expressions of
expenditure. The result, is of course, the total destruction of society and
civilization. Bataille had called for such revolts to be organized
systematically by "small numbers of men bound to each other by deep
emotional bounds," or, as Roger Callois put it, by a "virulent religious
organization, new and uncouth from head to toe, one sustained by a spirit
incapable of servitude."
Bradley made no bones about the relevancy of the Maistre and
Bataille connection. He wrote: " The connections between Maistre and the
College of Sociology were underlined by Caillois in one of his most
expansive lectures at the college, "The Sociology of the Executioner."
Caillois emphasizes the complicity of sovereign and executioner within a
framework of sacred purity and impurity: 'Sovereign and Executioner, one in
brilliance and splendor and the other in darkness and shame, fulfill cardinal
and symmetric functions…They are equally untouchable.' Or because of his
holiness, the other is unholiness (Hollier, 241). The executioner fulfills the
monarch's fundamental power, that over life, while leaving him all his
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