>>10 If by rotting you imagine an ascetic life then I would agree that goes against bataille, but that's not the only kind of rotting. As >>11 said there's also an active character to rotting, an active squandering or sacrifice.
That being said don't read me as valorizing NEETs, I'm absolutely not ascribing anything "radical" to this notion, it's not a dialectical opposition. Sure there is this aspect of sovereignty (consumption without production), but NEETs (including myself) are always falling back into the logic of accumulation. Accumulating technology, bishoujo figures, accumulating a "shows completed" number on MAL which cannot be given away, etc. There's an element of sovereignty, but it's not fully realized. "Symbolic exchange is no longer the organising principle of modern society", there's nothing you, as an individual, can do about this, the logic of accumulation will always rear it's head.
If by rotting you imagine an ascetic life then I would agree that goes against bataille, but that's not the only kind of rotting. As >>11 said there's also an active character to rotting, an active squandering or sacrifice.
That being said don't read me as valorizing NEETs, I'm absolutely not ascribing anything "radical" to this notion, it's not a dialectical opposition. Sure there is this aspect of sovereignty (consumption without production), but NEETs (including myself) are always falling back into the logic of accumulation. Accumulating technology, bishoujo figures, accumulating a "shows completed" number on MAL which cannot be given away, etc. There's an element of sovereignty, but it's not fully realized. "Symbolic exchange is no longer the organising principle of modern society", there's nothing you, as an individual, can do about this, the logic of accumulation will always rear it's head.