"Factory Chimney," Encyclopaedia Acephalica Announcing that words should have jobs rather than definitions, Bataille says that the job of formless is to "declasser" an action that simultaneously (1) lowers or debases objects by stripping them of their pretensions -- in the case of words, their pretensions to meaning -- and (2) declassifies, or attacks the very condition on which meaning depends, namely, the structural opposition betwen definite terms Rosalind Krauss, Bachelors, MIT Press (1999). Krauss notes the sexual innuendo often found in Bataille's operations, evident also in the collapsing chimney. The oddity of many of the photographs appearing in the "Acephalic Encyclopedia" is often remarked.