Zine : n°1 n°2 n°3-4 n°5
Lien original : monoskop
Derived from the Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, literally « headless »), Acéphale is the name of a public review created by Georges Bataille (four issues appeared between 1936 and 1939) and a para-religious society of the College de sociologie formed by himself, Georges Ambrosino, Pierre Klossowski, Patrick Waldberg, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris.
The cover of the magazine was illustrated by André Masson with a drawing inspired by da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. Masson’s figure has its skull displaced to take the place of–or to cover–the genitals.
Acéphale number 2 contains (among other things) responses to right-wing political readings of Nietzsche, showing how the Nazis were misquoting him and misrepresenting his positions.
Apart from Bataille, who wrote most of the texts, Caillois (nos. 3 and 4), Klossowski (1, 2, 3-4), Masson, Jules Monnerot (3-4), Jean Rollin and Jean Wahl (2) also participated in the review.