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Modern transportation infrastructure is built in service of the autonomous self we drive our cars and burn fossil fuels in the pursuit of freedom. This economy of expenditure conceives of nature as a resource that can only do work we stockpile resources for their preservation or consumption by the free and autonomous self. Stoekl 7 (Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University, Batailles Peak: Energy,
Religion, Postsustainability, p. 123-128) The austerity-authenticity-sustainability school of social commentary is symmetrically matched by another AND self or its drama? If so, how can we formulate it?

This fossil fuel economy eschews intimate expenditure in favor of that which is directed toward efficiency and utility. This regime of production and consumption authorizes nuclear warfare, subordinating both nature and humanity to the horizon of a telos. Only affirming excessive expenditure such as the intimate depletion of bodily energy opens the possibility for planetary survival, de-linking expenditure from the expectation of return. Stoekl 7 (Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University, Batailles Peak: Energy,
Religion, and Postsustainability, p. 52-59) All this is ultimately important because it shows us the dual nature of Batailles project AND but the movement of bodies in transport, in ecstasy, in despair?

The contemporary economy of expenditure makes nuclear annihilation inevitable. Cultivating alternative forms of expenditure is key to planetary survival. Stoekl 7 (Allan, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, Excess and
Depletion: Batailles Surprisingly Ethical Model of Expenditure, Reading Bataille Now, Edited by Shannon Winnubst, pgs. 253-254) The basis for Batailles approach can be found in the second chapter, Laws AND expenditure and thereby threaten mans, not to mention the planets, survival.

Thus, we affirm excessive expenditure through the transportation infrastructure of bodily movement, such as walking and bicycling. The expenditure of bodily energy through walking and cycling constitutes a different form of expenditure from that of the car no longer directed toward a controlled circulation of autonomous selves, walkers and cyclists needlessly spend bodily energy rather than purposefully consuming energy resources. Stoekl 7 (Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University, Batailles Peak: Energy,
Religion, Postsustainability, p. 187-188) The universal city, one of whose greatest moments would no doubt be the ville AND announces a radical finitude at the heart of seemingly endless, quantified waste.

The affirmation of transportation through the excessive expenditure of bodily energy breaks with the modern fossil fuel economy and its expectation of return only placing the

telos of autonomy in question opens up the possibility for a post-sustainable world and planetary survival. Stoekl 7 (Allan, professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University, Batailles Peak: Energy,
Religion, Postsustainability, p. 140-145) Where does that leave Batailles future? Recall our analysis of The Accursed Share in AND inefficiency, in the squandering of time, of effort, of focus.