Both classical and critical studies of warfare often comment on the relationship between war and excess. However, even in richly theoretical work, this connection is unanalyzed. This article focuses on the link between excess and war, and seeks to deepen our understanding of why excess reappears so frequently in the study of armed conflict and security studies. Specifically, the article turns to the work of Georges Bataille, an overlooked figure in the critical tradition, who extensively theorized linkages between excess and war. In Bataille’s thought, excess is a key term for explicating the design, mobilization, and transformation of war. Moreover, Bataille sees the exposure to excess as playing a key part in social attachments to violence and armed conflict. The article unpacks how Bataille theorizes excess and applies his insights to the context of precision warfare. Using the case of the accident in the era of precision war, it reveals how Bataille anticipates many of the dynamics that structure late warfare through his understanding of excess. The article concludes by describing how Bataille’s vision of excess would challenge critical war and security studies literatures in relation to the problems of war experience, relationships to death, and scholarship.

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过剩战争：乔治·巴塔耶、太阳能经济和精确战争时代的事故

战争的经典和批判性研究都经常评论战争与过度之间的关系。然而，即使在丰富的理论工作中，这种联系也没有得到分析。本文侧重于过度与战争之间的联系，并试图加深我们对为什么过度在武装冲突和安全研究中如此频繁地重新出现的理解。具体而言，本文转向乔治·巴塔耶 (Georges Bataille) 的著作，他是批判传统中被忽视的人物，他广泛地将过度与战争之间的联系理论化了。在巴塔耶看来，过剩是阐释战争设计、动员和转化的关键术语。此外，巴塔耶认为过度暴露在社会对暴力和武装冲突的依恋中起着关键作用。这篇文章解开了巴塔耶如何将过剩理论化并将他的见解应用于精确战争的背景。通过精确战争时代的事故案例，它揭示了巴塔耶如何通过他对过剩的理解来预测构建后期战争的许多动态。文章最后描述了巴塔耶的过度观点将如何挑战与战争经验、死亡关系和学术问题相关的批判性战争和安全研究文献。