...In the terms Bataille proposes in "The Notion of Expenditure" (Visions 116-29) and elaborates in La Part maudite, any "restricted economy"--any putatively closed, reciprocal system, such as an identity, a concept or structure, marketplace, ecosystem, and so on--produces more than it can account for. Any restricted economy is fractured by its own unacknowledged excess, and in seeking to maintain itself it will, against its own logic, crave expenditure and loss..."

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