| We have studied parasurrealist groups in the pre-war period of European fascism (1924-1939).;In Part Two, the non-fiction writings of Georges Bataille for collective reviews are studied in Arethuse and Documents. These are evaluated in terms of their connections to different disciplines such as art history, paleography, and ethnology. What is defined as the "force of Acephale" emerges through this work and is materialized in an acephalic coin.;In Part Three, first, the dissident anti-Stalinist group La Critique Sociale, animated by Boris Souvarine, and the major theoretical articles written by Bataille within this activist collective are considered as a "polycephalic politics". Second, the underlying scientific foundations of the key concept of improductive expenditure are detailed to manifest both its roots and sprouts in energeticism. Third, utilizing improductive expenditure as a pragmatic politics is explored and introduces a discrepancy between Bataille's theories (the interpretation of fascism and the State) and two ephemeral group experiments, one with the Marxist group Masses and the other, reconciled with Surrealists, in Contre-Attaque.;In Part Four, the "secret society" is investigated through the review Acephale. An analysis of these "illustrated notebooks" (the relationships between figure, article and reference) demonstrates the creation of new subjectivities in the aphoristic language of the group.;In Part One, a serial genealogy of the figure of "Acephale" in the early work of Andre Masson is presented.;In Part Five, the confluence of small collectivities composing the "College de sociologie", their independent functioning and concern for the theory and practice of groups are examined. The "School of French Sociology" is compared and contrasted to the "College". Each of the available lectures (1937-1939) is discussed in light of "communial movement", a concept invented by the "College" and embodied in the disintegration of this group. |
