Joy can be a visceral response to ruptures of stable social order

Evidence

There are echoes of Georges Bataille’s (1991) view of joy in this passage: a visceral experience responding to sudden ruptures of stable social order, which alert us to the openness of the unknown. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 737

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Bataillean conception of joy as a rupture-experience, contrasting with ordinary happiness.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s larger theme of how financialized uncertainty reshapes social imagination and opens the unknown. — connects to: Self-conscious nostalgia can fuel revolution, not merely fascism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 172; General social collapse redirected people from earthly joy to heavenly hope — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1196; Immediate unhappiness combined with reflection generates metaphysical optimism about super-sensible worlds — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1141 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• General social collapse redirected people from earthly joy to heavenly hope #contradicts (0.85) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1196
• Immediate unhappiness combined with reflection generates metaphysical optimism about super-sensible worlds #qualifies (0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1141
• Emotion overturns individuated structures only through communal resonance. #qualifies (0.70) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 273