1. Body without organs

    The body without organs is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body—not necessarily human— without organizational structures imposed on its constituent parts, operating freely. The term was first used by French writer Antonin Artaud in his 1947 play To Have Done With the Judgment of God, later adapted by Deleuze in his book The Logic of Sense, and ambiguously expanded upon by himself and Guattari in both volumes of their work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Stemming from the general abstract notion of the body in metaphysics, and the unconscious in psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari theorized that since the conscious and unconscious fantasies in psychosis and schizophrenia express potential forms and functions of the body that demand it to be liberated, the reality of the homeostatic process of the body is that it is limited by its organization and more so by its organs. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    A schizoanalytical diagram of the social dynamic of the body without organs, from Anti-Oedipus.. The body without organs (or BwO; French: corps sans organes or CsO) [1] is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body—not necessarily human [2] — without organizational structures imposed ...
  3. theturnips.net

    This is where Deleuze got the concept of body without organs. Deleuze also loved what 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza said: "no one knows what a body can do," meaning we can do seemingly impossible things with bodies. If we got rid of the rules that we made as humans to dictate what a body can do according to other rules we created ...
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  5. plato.stanford.edu

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://plato.stanford.edu › entries › deleuze

    Chapters 6 and 7 discuss methods of experimenting with the strata in which we found ourselves. Chapter 6 deals with the organic stratum or the "organism"; the notorious term of art "Body without Organs" can be at least partially glossed as the reservoir of potentials for different patterns of bodily affect.
  6. In keeping with the above, D&G write that BwO form a surface of non-production: "In order to resist organ-machines, the body without organs presents its smooth, slippery, opaque, taut surface as a barrier" (AO9). This 'surface' is distinct from the 'depths' of the productive process.
  7. link.springer.com

    The body without organs, then, can be defined as the becoming-machine of the organism; it is what happens when one part of the body enters into combination with some other machine in a way which allows it to escape from the organism's regularizing, normalizing processes. Seen in this way, the body previously considered an organism is opened ...
  8. topologicalmedialab.net

    bones of a disorganized body. These are her own words."z The paranoid body: the organs are continually under attack by outside forces, but are also restored by outside energies. ("He lived for a long time without a stomach, without intestines, almost without lungs, with a torn oesophagus, without a
  9. rwoodley.org

    "The body without organs is not the proof of an original nothingness, nor is it what remains of a lost totality. Above all, it is not a projection; it has nothing whatsoever to do with the body itself, or with an image of the body. It is the body without an image. This imageless, organless body, the nonproductive, exists right there where it ...
  10. oxfordreference.com

    The phrase 'body without organs' was borrowed from schizophrenic French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud, but Artaud's work taken in isolation cannot be used to explain the concept. Deleuze reads Artaud in counterpoint to Melanie Klein (and to a lesser extent, Gisela Pankow) and it is only in this context that the term becomes meaningful. ...
  11. everything.explained.today

    Body without organs explained. The body without organs (or BwO; French: French: corps sans organes or French: CsO) is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body—not necessarily human— without organizational structures imposed on its constituent parts, operating freely.

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