General academia may not be a fan of me - I was captured by Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard - but Northwestern is not general - evidenced by Weinberg College. I can be sure to have great discussions with Northwestern’s Professor Deutscher, because instead of fearing change and constant growth, Northwestern embraces it. Bataille prescribes a thesis against violence, to prevent prejudice, which can be very applicable to socioeconomic and identity oppression. It is a thesis of living through expenditure, because structural violence is only enabled when those who oppress have a surplus of energy. Irigaray quickly deemed Bataille as sexist, others as an ivory tower - when in actuality it was nothing of the sort. This similarity can be seen
