thumb|200px|André Masson's cover for the first issue of Acéphale. (1936). Acéphale () is the name of a public review created by Georges Bataille (which numbered five issues, from 1936 to 1939) and a secret society formed by Bataille and others who had sworn to keep silent. Its name is derived from the Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, literally "headless").
thumb|200px|André Masson's cover for the first issue of Acéphale. (1936). Acéphale () is the name of a public review created by Georges Bataille (which numbered five issues, from 1936 to 1939) and a secret society formed by Bataille and others who had sworn to keep silent. Its name is derived from the Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, literally "headless").
==Acéphale, the review== Dated 24 June 1936, the first issue was only eight pages. The cover was illustrated by André Masson with a drawing openly inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of Vitruvian Man, who embodies classical reason. Masson's figure, however, is headless, his groin covered by a skull, and holds in his right hand a burning heart, while in his left he wields a dagger. In turn embodying the "reversed hermeticism in the form of parody" encompassing the "totality of Bataille's thought." Under the title Acéphale are printed the words Religion. Sociologie. Philosophie, followed on the next line by the expression the sacred conjuration (la conjuration sacrée). As recalled by Masson the drawing was "made on the spot, under the eyes of George Bataille" and it "had the good luck to please him."
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).