File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Jun.96, message 34


Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:50:57 +0100 (BST)
From: D Hugh-Jones <dash2-AT-hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: BwO & Expression


On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Karen Ocana wrote:

> I can't see how it would be a matter of saying what a Body-Without-
> Organs is (which is what *someone* seems to be
> requesting) although, for that matter, there are plenty of
> "definitions" of a BwO in 1000P as well as in AO and Dialogues.
> It's not as if there is a BwO that can be described, that exists,
> like Stonehenge, or the Taj Mahal, although someone could find a
> BwO there, if they were really looking.

I just would like a definition of the concept. It doesn't have to be a thing.


 However, iT's not that sort
> of a geology (a geologically or graphically localizable existing
> thing)

you mean something that you can point to?

, but a geology of morals:

a what?

 "To be Done with the Judgment of
> God", an experience of the radical de-organization of the body, and
> of the willed de-organization of the body:

you mean trying to experience your body as a site not an organism?
where does God come into this?

 in other words a thing
> on the level of pure sensation, but sensation in search of a
> concept, a flux of intensities existing only as expressions.

how does sensation search for a concept?
expressions of what?

  A
> rush of blood to the face, a look of anguish, or of horror or a
> baby's vacuous expression, no expression, the inexpressible could
> also be seen as 'faciality' indexes of bodies-without-organs.

as whats? hold on, I'm just checking my connection
 
> You wanna know what a BwO is?  Try doing your shoelaces up with
> your mouth

but, but, but wouldn't it be easier to use my hands?

, or, better, try tying your mouth up with your
> shoelaces.  Stay that way for a year.  Ever heard of the theatre of
> cruelty?

ooooh, that's _rude_!


Dave Hugh-Jones
just checking my faciality index
dash2-AT-cam.ac.uk



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